SECONDARY: light lens parallax | London Gallery Weekend

For his exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, 'SECONDARY: light lens parallax', Barney employs a series of formal tactics that examine the intersection between repetitive physical movement and the iterative artistic gesture. Exploring athletic equipment and infrastructural objects as evocations for the figure, the artist’s new sculptures examine both failure and resilience within the body. While the gallery proposes itself as an arena for action, Barney exploits the varying natural qualities of his materials as metaphor for recovery and collapse. The ceramic pipe of Sanguine Axis is fused with plastic and buttressed by a stack of cast resin sandbags. It is...

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Installation view, Matthew Barney, 'SECONDARY: light lens parallax', Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, 24 May - 27 July 2024. Credit: © Matthew Barney. Courtesy the Artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Eva Herzog.
Matthew Barney (b. 1967, San Francisco CA) lives and works in New York. Barney works across sculpture, photography, drawing and film, often developing singular pieces over a number of years. The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), for example, involved a series of five, feature-length films exploring processes of creation developed over almost a decade, whilst his seminal and ongoing Drawing Restra...

Matthew Barney (b. 1967, San Francisco CA) lives and works in New York. Barney works across sculpture, photography, drawing and film, often developing singular pieces over a number of years. The Cremaster Cycle (1994-2002), for example, involved a series of five, feature-length films exploring processes of creation developed over almost a decade, whilst his seminal and ongoing Drawing Restraint series began in 1987, with a film set on an Icelandic whaling ship, which has since been followed by a number of films moving from Celtic mythical scenes to the Guggenheim, New York.

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