Helen Marten: Sparrows On the Stone, 04 Sep 2021 — 30 Oct 2021
Helen Marten: Sparrows On the Stone. Courtesy of Sadie Coles
Exhibitions
Helen Marten: Sparrows On the Stone
Sparrows On the Stone – S.O.S – is both a map and invention of slippage: our scabs, our shreds, our exuberance and our stink
62 Kingly Street,
London W1B 5QN, UK
London W1B 5QN, UK
Sadie Coles presents Helen Marten’s solo show “Sparrows On the Stone”. The exhibition maps freestanding walls into the configuration of a body, extending the singularity of one body-form at gigantic scale across the full spread of the gallery.
Using the ancient philosophical metaphor of “the body politic”, the exhibition morphs the allegory of a single individual body into a raging grammatical city, a contemporary projection of systems, agency and the digestion of ideas.