Work No 850 @ Tate Britain, Martin Creed

British artist Martin Creed’s conceptual work gained notoriety when he won in 2002 the Turner Prize with his controversial Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, which consisted of just that, in an empty gallery at Tate Britain. In 2008 he returned to Tate Britain with Work No. 850. Every 30 seconds for several months, a single runner would sprint the length of the empty Duveen Galleries. Creed, whose practice typically involves raw physicality, pseudo-autistic repetition, and the slightest alterations to materials and spaces, says Work No. 850 is about exhibiting life lived fully, and the comfort of regularity.