Fiona Banner: Wp Wp Wp

Produced to coincide with the 2014-15 exhibition 'Wp Wp Wp', Yorkshire Sculpture Park presented Wp Wp Wp, a publication by UK artist Fiona Banner.

The onomatopoeic title of the exhibition mimics the sound of helicopter blades in action, as commonly used in movie storyboards and comics. Banner has long been fascinated by military aircraft, finding them at once beautiful and horrifying; almost ‘prehistoric, from a time before words'. This relationship to language underpins Banner’s sculptural work. For her, the ever rotating criss-cross of the blades as they mark out time and space is like a language trying to happen or a text trying to be formulated, 'It’s like they are trying to spell out something that can’t be said.'