End of Summer Cultural Servings

Not a House but a Memory - Gallery Rosenfeld

A group show of seven artists from across Europe, Not a House but a Memory takes its inspiration from philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s book The Poetics of Space. Emphasising materiality and mixed-media installations, the works shown explore the concept of home, and how domestic spaces hold emotion, memory and sensation. Whether it be Rebekka Homann interrogating emotional labour through a series of handmade modular cranes, or the ghostly impressions of Sam Llewellyn-Jones’ sculptures, Not a House but a Memory speaks to the gallery space as its own fluid kind of home. 

The Natural World - Modern Art Bury Street

The work of sculptor Nicolas Deshayes often sees the French-born artist working in close tandem with industrial manufacturers: his famed 2016 show Thames Water saw him create functioning radiators made to resemble internal organs. With his show The Natural World at Modern Art Bury Street, he transforms everyday objects – shells, dinner plates, joints of meat – into delicate sculptures, straddling the line between Pop art and Minimalism. The everyday things we take for granted, he seems to suggest, are always more breakable than we think.

Dennis Morris: Music + Life - Photographer’s Gallery

Photographer to both Bob Marley and the Sex Pistols, Dennis Morris is one of the finest punk photographers of his generation, proudly presented at this Photographer’s Gallery retrospective. Yet his earlier street photography of Windrush-era immigrant communities in Southall, London, is equally remarkable. Lovingly curated, the show is a cheering vision of a life very well lived.

Do Ho Suh: Walk the House - Tate Modern

Korean-born, London-based artist Do Ho Suh has gained renown for his large-scale recreations of architectural spaces. In this major retrospective at the Tate Modern, passageways, bedrooms and traditional Korean buildings are exactingly recreated from unusual materials like paper or light fabric. Through these beautifully realised works, Suh looks to interrogate the relationship between architecture, how we remember it and the physical body.