Editing Mark Wallinger (section)

== Later work ==
Wallinger's later work appears to have largely turned away from his earlier preoccupations, instead apparently focusing on religion and death and the influence of [[William Blake]]. "Angel" is a video played in reverse showing the artist walking backwards at the bottom of the down escalator at Angel Underground Station while reciting the opening lines of the [[Gospel of John]] in the [[King James Bible]]. At the conclusion of the video the music of ''[[Zadok the Priest]]'' that forms part of the British [[Coronation]] ceremony can be heard as Wallinger 'ascends' up the stairs. ''No Man's Land'', a show at the [[Whitechapel Gallery]] included several works on these subjects. ''Threshold to the Kingdom'' (2000), for example, is a slow motion video of people coming through automatic double doors at international arrivals at an airport. The video is accompanied by a recording of the famous ''Miserere'' by [[Gregorio Allegri]]. Wallinger has said that the title might be taken as a double meaning: arrival at the [[United Kingdom]], but also at the kingdom of [[heaven]], with a security guard playing the part of [[St. Peter]].{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

The largest work in the ''No Man's Land'' show was ''Prometheus''. This piece is in two parts – on the outside, in a dark corridor, is a video of Wallinger (or rather his alter-ego, "Blind Faith") sitting in an [[electric chair]] and singing Ariel's song from [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Tempest (play)|The Tempest]]''. From the corridor, automatic double doors give access to a brightly lit room which has an electric chair bolted to one of the walls, giving a top-down "God's-eye view" of it. On two facing walls are large photos of fists with the words "LOVE" and "HATE" written on them, a reference to the preacher played by [[Robert Mitchum]] in the [[film]], ''[[The Night of the Hunter (film)|The Night of the Hunter]]'', who had similar tattoos on his knuckles. A circular steel loop gives out a continuous buzzing sound.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

''Ecce Homo'' was the first work to occupy the empty plinth in [[Trafalgar Square]]. This work is a life-sized statue of a Christ figure, naked apart from a loin cloth, and with his hands bound behind his back. He wears a crown of [[barbed wire]]. The sculpture was placed at the very front edge of the massive plinth, emphasising its vulnerability and relative smallness. It was quite popular with the public and was later shown at the [[Venice Biennale]] in 2001, where Wallinger was Britain's representative.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}

He was one of the five artists shortlisted for the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ebbsfleetlandmark.com/artists-proposals/ |title=Artists Proposals |access-date=13 December 2011 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226221959/http://www.ebbsfleetlandmark.com/artists-proposals/ |archive-date=26 February 2012 }}</ref> in January 2008, and in February 2009 it was announced that his design had won the competition. Wallinger's design is of [[White Horse at Ebbsfleet|a giant white horse]] modelled on another of his own racehorses, 'Riviera Red',{{disputed inline|Disputed – horse|date=August 2017}} and has been described by his supporters as "an absolutely mesmerising conflation of old England and new, of the semi-mythical, Tolkienesque past and the six-lanes, all-crawling present".<ref>{{cite journal|last=Gayford|first=Martin|url=http://apollo-magazine.co.uk/features/804506/think-of-england.thtml|title=Think of England: Mark Wallinger talks about Ebbsfleet|journal=[[Apollo (magazine)|Apollo]]|date=1 July 2008|access-date=9 June 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811150224/http://apollo-magazine.co.uk/features/804506/think-of-england.thtml|archive-date=11 August 2011}}</ref>

He curated the exhibition "The Russian Linesman: Frontiers, Borders and Thresholds" at the Hayward Gallery in London, which lasted from February to May 2009.<ref>{{cite web|last=Baron|first= Scarlett|url= http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/mark-wallinger-curates/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100316090657/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/mark-wallinger-curates/ |url-status= usurped |archive-date= 16 March 2010 |title=Mark Wallinger Curates|website= [[Oxonian Review]]|date= 9 March 2009|access-date= 29 December 2010}}</ref>
[[File:Mark Wallinger Labyrinth 218 - Cockfosters.jpg|thumbnail|''Labyrinth 218'', Cockfosters.]]
In April 2011, it was announced that Mark Wallinger would be one of three artists (along with Chris Ofili and Conrad Shawcross) to collaborate with the [[The Royal Ballet|Royal Ballet]] and the [[National Gallery]] to create a piece based on works by the Renaissance painter Titian. ''Titian Metamorphosis'', which documented the entire project from conception to finished performances, was published by London-based publisher Art / Books in two editions in January 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artbookspublishing.co.uk/titian-metamorphosis/|title=Art / Books – Publishers of fine illustrated books – Titian Metamorphosis|work=artbookspublishing.co.uk|date=21 January 2013}}</ref>

In February 2013, it was announced that Wallinger had created ''[[Labyrinth (artwork)|Labyrinth]]'' a set of 270 [[Vitreous enamel|enamel]] plaques of unicursal [[labyrinth]] designs, one for every London tube station, to mark the 150th anniversary of the [[London Underground]]; each will be numbered according to its position in the route taken by the contestants in the 2009 [[Guinness World Record]] [[Tube Challenge]].<ref>{{cite news
 | last = Brown
 | first = Mark
 | title = Tube celebrates 150th birthday with labyrinth art project
 | newspaper = The Guardian
 | date = 7 February 2013
 | url =https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/07/tube-150-birthday-labyrinth-art-project
 | access-date = 9 February 2013}}</ref> In October 2014, Art / Books published ''Labyrinth: A Journey Through London's Underground by Mark Wallinger'', a comprehensive photographic book of all 270 labyrinth designs in situ in the Underground stations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artbookspublishing.co.uk/labyrinth/|title=Art / Books – Publishers of fine illustrated books – Labyrinth|work=artbookspublishing.co.uk|date=20 August 2014}}</ref>

In 2019 Wallinger displayed his sculpture entitled [[The World Turned Upside Down (sculpture)|The World Turned Upside Down]] at the London School of Economics. The artwork attracted controversy for showing the island of [[Taiwan]] as a sovereign entity, rather than as part of the [[People’s Republic of China]].<ref>Martin Bailey (5 April 2019), [https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/mark-wallinger Wallinger's upside-down globe outside LSE angers Chinese students for portraying Taiwan as an independent state] ''[[The Art Newspaper]]''.</ref> After dueling protests<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/04/05/lse-considers-altering-sculpture-show-taiwan-part-china-student/|title=LSE considers altering sculpture to show Taiwan as part of China after student pressure|access-date=7 April 2019|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=5 April 2019|last1=Yan|first1=Sophia|last2=Lyons|first2=Izzy}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/edition/news/london-school-of-economics-in-a-world-of-trouble-over-globe-artwork-7lc696x97|title=London School of Economics in a world of trouble over globe artwork|access-date=7 April 2019|newspaper=The Times|date=6 April 2019|last1=Parker|first1=Charlie}}</ref> by students from both the PRC and ROC and reactions by third party observers (which included the President of Taiwan,<ref>{{cite news |title=Taiwan will always be a sovereign country: Tsai |url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201904050020.aspx |agency=Focus Taiwan |publisher=Focus Taiwan |date=5 April 2019}}</ref> Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.roc-taiwan.org/uk_en/post/5075.html|title=Taiwan Foreign Minister writes open letter protesting LSE's decision to change depiction of Taiwan on sculpture |access-date=7 April 2019}}</ref> and the co-chairs of the British-Taiwanese All-Party Parliamentary Group in the House of Commons<ref name="focustaiwan.tw">{{cite web|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201904050005.aspx|title=U.K. parliamentarians step into debate on Taiwan's name on statue|date=5 April 2019 |access-date=7 April 2019}}</ref>) the university decided later that year that it would retain the original design which chromatically displayed the PRC and ROC as different entities but with the addition of an asterisk beside the name of Taiwan and a corresponding placard that clarified the institution's position regarding the controversy.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lin Chia-nan |title=Ministry lauds LSE for globe color decision |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2019/07/11/2003718465 |agency=Taipei Times |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=11 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Taiwan still distinct from China but given asterisk on LSE art work |url=http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201907100013.aspx |agency=Focus Taiwan |publisher=Focus Taiwan |date=10 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Everington |first1=Keoni |title=LSE ignores Chinese cries, adds asterisk next to Taiwan on globe |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3742226 |agency=Taiwan News |newspaper=Taiwan News |date=10 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lin |first1=Shirley |title=LSE adds asterisk next to Taiwan on globe art installation |url=https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2001460 |agency=RTI |publisher=RTI |date=10 July 2019}}</ref>

In October 2019, Wallinger featured in a group show at Tension Fine Art alongside artists Julian Lowe and Stuart Elliot. The show "You Can't Tell By Looking" was curated by Kate Love.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.tensionfineart.co.uk/you-cant-tell-by-looking/ |title = EXHIBITIONS – You Can't Tell by Looking}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2840-mark-wallinger|title = Mark Wallinger}}</ref>