Tag: art installations
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Surviving the webs of life
Beyond simple memory, the Hayward Gallery hosts a visceral confrontation between Yin Xiuzhen’s sociopolitical textiles and Chiharu Shiota’s psychological webs. A staggering dialogue between the world we have ruined through rapid modernisation and the body that must endure it.
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Exploring home through fabric architecture at Tate Modern
Do Ho Suh: Walk the House at Tate Modern explores ideas of home, memory, and belonging through large-scale fabric architecture, drawings, and immersive installations. Shaped by the artist’s experiences in Seoul, New York, and London, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on what it truly means to carry home with us.
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Arte Povera at the Serpentine Gallery
Giuseppe Penone’s Thoughts in the Roots at the Serpentine Gallery transforms the exhibition space into an extension of Kensington Gardens. Through sculpture, scent, sound, and material, Penone invites us to slow down and rediscover our connection with trees, nature, and time itself.
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Visceral Sculptures in the Turbine Hall
A powerful review of Open Wound, Mire Lee’s Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. This article examines how Lee transforms the vast industrial space into a visceral, body-like environment where machinery, vulnerability, and human labour intersect, evoking themes of precarity, decay, and care.
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Art for emotional and spiritual transformation
Marina Abramović’s long-awaited retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts traces five decades of radical performance, exploring endurance, vulnerability, spirituality, and the transformative power of art.
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Fibrous structures
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s Tate Modern exhibition reveals her groundbreaking transformation of woven fibre into monumental sculptural forms, immersing viewers in a primal landscape that redefines the boundaries between textile, sculpture and the human body.
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Disquieting apocalyptic visions
Mike Nelson’s Extinction Beckons at the Hayward Gallery reimagines his most ambitious installations, immersing viewers in disquieting, dystopian environments that blur the boundaries between past, present, and future.
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Rethinking the world
Lubaina Himid’s exhibition at Tate Modern showcases her vibrant figurative paintings and installations, exploring history, identity, and the Black Art movement in the UK.
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Sewing dark memories
This powerful exhibition reveals Louise Bourgeois’s groundbreaking use of textiles and fabric sculpture in The Woven Child, offering one of the most intimate perspectives on contemporary art at London’s Hayward Gallery.
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Relics of a lost era
Mike Nelson’s installation in the Duveen Galleries transforms the historic space into a warehouse of industrial relics—from large knitting machines to old NHS doors—creating a striking monument to a lost era while his sculptures blur the line between relic, machine, and artwork, giving these objects a mysterious new life.