Tag: Hayward Gallery

  • When perception gives way to sacrifice

    When perception gives way to sacrifice

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    Eva-Maria Sanchez
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    Anish Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery with an exhibition that is both visually spectacular and emotionally unsettling. While his monumental voids and Vantablack sculptures continue to challenge our perception of space, his recent corporeal works confront visitors with flesh, blood, and sacrificial ritual. This review examines how the retrospective navigates the friction between quiet…

  • Surviving the webs of life

    Surviving the webs of life

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    Eva-Maria Sanchez
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    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.

  • Iconic Portraits and Inner Worlds

    Iconic Portraits and Inner Worlds

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    Eva-Maria Sanchez
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    Yoshitomo Nara’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery invites viewers into an intimate creative universe shaped by emotion, memory, and resistance. Through paintings, drawings, and installations, Nara’s iconic figures explore inner worlds marked by vulnerability, political awareness, and quiet defiance.

  • Organic sculpture that captures your imagination

    Organic sculpture that captures your imagination

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    Eva-Maria Sanchez
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    When Forms Come Alive at the Hayward Gallery presents a compelling survey of contemporary sculpture from the last 60 years, featuring immersive works inspired by organic growth, movement, and transformation. Through large-scale installations and materially rich forms, the exhibition blurs the boundaries between art, nature, and science, inviting visitors into a continuously shifting sensory experience.

  • Disquieting apocalyptic visions

    Disquieting apocalyptic visions

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    Eva-Maria Sanchez
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    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.

  • Sewing dark memories

    Sewing dark memories

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    Eva-Maria Sanchez
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    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.