Marcos Lutyens: Hypnotic Show (in pictures)

This solo exhibition plunges us into the world of hypnosis, tracing the history and creative mechanisms of the Hypnotic Show performance series through archives such as sketchbooks, notes, a video, and previously unseen artworks. Conceived and first realized in 2008 by Lutyens and Raimundas Malašauskas, Hypnotic Show is a performance project in the form of a “temporary social structure where we engage in cognitive creative acts during a collective practice of art and hypnosis.” Spectators are invited to take part in an artist-led hypnosis session, during which the artist transposes an exhibition and works of art directly into the minds of participants.