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''Sharks!'' is an art installation in
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by architect Jaimie Shorten. The art was built following its concept winning the 2020 Antepavilion, an annual art contest.


Art

''Sharks!'' consists of five life-sized
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s. The project was inspired by
The Headington Shark The Headington Shark (proper name ''Untitled 1986'') is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without permissi ...
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. The installation cost £25,000. It was selected and built as the 2020 Antepavilion, fitting the year's theme of "tension of authoritarian governance of the built environment and aesthetic libertarianism". Shorten said that he thinks of the sharks as ingénues, that have surfaced in the "centre of hipster maelstrom" and as "dumb recipients of the horrible world" that are redeemed through being in Hoxton and "being together".


Dispute

In August 2020,
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obtained an interim injunction order to prohibit the ''Sharks!'' from being installed at the
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Hoxton Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, England. As a part of Shoreditch, it is often considered to be part of the East End – the historic core of wider East London. It was historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. I ...
. As stated in the interim injunction order, the Order was made at a hearing without notice to the Defendants. In October 2020,
Hackney London Borough Council Hackney London Borough Council is the local government authority for the London Borough of Hackney, London, England, one of 32 London borough councils. The council is unusual in the United Kingdom local government system in that its executive fun ...
obtained a varied interim High Court injunction order to remove ''Sharks!'' from
Regent's Canal Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just north of central London, England. It provides a link from the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, north-west of Paddington Basin in the west, to the Limehouse Basin and the River Thames in eas ...
in
Hoxton Hoxton is an area in the London Borough of Hackney, England. As a part of Shoreditch, it is often considered to be part of the East End – the historic core of wider East London. It was historically in the county of Middlesex until 1889. I ...
after a reconsideration hearing. In April 2021, ''Sharks!'' was relocated to
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Boat Club. In June 2021, the sharks were removed from their home in the Islington Boat Club and returned to Antepavilion where they were stored on a river barge. In July 2021, the Court of Appeal granted permission to appeal the injunction order.


See also

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The Headington Shark The Headington Shark (proper name ''Untitled 1986'') is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without permissi ...


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