Really have been meaning to go to the Southbank just to walk through and around Máret Ánne Sara‘s installation in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. The problem with things like installations in the Turbine Hall is that they tend to (quite reasonably) be there for months and you put it off until next week and oh, maybe next Tuesday and oh, look at that rain. The piece has been there since October of last year, it is there until 12th April 2026. Four months of putting it off until last week and it was really only that I had to go to the Tate anyway for Tracey Emin’s much celebrated Second Life and as much as I wanted to avoid anything else but Tracey, as much as I needed to resist a quick visit to the Rothko room, I really had to have an engagement with Máret Ánne Sara’s Goavve-Geabbil before it was too late…     

“Máret Ánne Sara is a Sámi artist from a reindeer herding family in Sápmi. Her multisensory installation Goavve-Geabbil responds to the history of Tate Modern’s site — a former oil and coal power station — inviting us to view energy not as a resource to be exploited, but as a sacred life-force rooted in ancestral knowledge and interconnection. 

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Reindeer herding is a cornerstone of Sámi culture, shaping the relationship between people, lands and animals. It recognises the interdependence and intrinsic value of all living beings. Sara combines hides, bones and wood derived from reindeer herding practices with industrial materials, sound and scent, to reflect on the destruction of ecosystems, and the erosion of Sámi culture due to mining and energy developments in Sápmi. 

Goavve-Geabbil stands as a living monument, with Sara calling on us to remember that ‘nature is not an endless resource to exploit. If we expect to receive from it, to sustain life for all beings, we must also ensure its health and ability to regenerate’. Through this work Sara upholds Sámi science and philosophy as progressive, powerful and vital to shaping the future of our shared world”. 

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