When Forms Come Alive: ‘Discover for yourself the ever-transforming experience of sculpture’
When Forms Come Alive presents sculptural work in forms that are surprising and unpredictable, energising and engaging.
The group exhibition featured work from 21 international artists spanning more than 60 years of contemporary sculpture. As Hayward Gallery director Ralph Rugoff explains in this video, When Forms Come Alive ‘charted a flow of ideas across three generations of artists, all of whom make work that seems to be full of life and movement, and explores irregular complex forms’.
This curatorial video introduction from Rugoff gives particular focus to three of the exhibition’s works; Shylight (2006-2014), a performative sculpture of ascending and descending lights that open and close like flowers by DRIFT. Bouquet Final (2012), a slowly cascading wall of foam by Michel Blazy. And, Untitled (Mylar) (2011), a work consisting of thousands of reflective discs of mylar which have been folded and moulded into connecting spheres, by Tara Donovan.
‘Discover for yourself what this changing, ever-transforming experience of sculpture is like’.
Ralph Rugoff, Hayward Gallery Director
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An introduction to When Forms Come Alive, a 2024 group sculptural exhibition featuring work from 21 international artists.