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In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

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Two Weeks - video for FKA Twigs - Nabil Elderkin
Nabil Elderkin

Two Weeks - video for FKA Twigs - Nabil Elderkin

In the week when her long awaited debut LP1 is launched we draw your attention to the latest in a number of elegantly unsettling videos married to Twigs brittle, breathless songs. Her two EPs of exquisite angular arrangements over which she etches achingly beautiful vocal figures are completed with newer material including this genre-busting number which harks back to the reductive genius of Prince as much as it looks beyond its numbingly prosaic cousins from the current charts. The video, made by the relentlessly inventive Nabil Elderkin replaces the new-graphik weirdness of her previous clips with an homage to epic pan-cultural kitsch. At times it feels like an animated still from some of Ridley Scott's recent historical excesses but the real genius is in the games of scale and motion the director plays. As a setting for the regal Twigs it works brilliantly.

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"...the owners of a New York skyscraper had a problem on their hands as people got dangerously impatient waiting for the elevators. A psychologist was called in, who advised that large mirrors be placed on the elevator doors so that people could see themselves as they waited. This stroke of brilliance solved the problem."
- Richard Gregory, 1997, Mirrors In Mind