When Forms Come Alive

Inspired by sources ranging from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave, from a flow of molten metal to the interlacing of a spider’s web, the artworks in When Forms Come Alive conjured fluid and shifting realms of experience.

Undulating, drooping, erupting, cascading and promiscuously proliferating, the sculptures of this exhibition invited a tactile gaze, and triggered physical responses. In an era when our encounters are increasingly digitised and disembodied, these artworks called to mind the pleasures of gesture and movement, the poetics of gravity and the experience of sensation itself.

Palpably dynamic, the works of this 2024 group exhibition proclaimed that nothing in the world stays the same, that everything is moving, seething, changing and transforming.

When Forms Come Alive featured work by 21 international artists: Ruth Asawa, Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Michel Blazy, Paloma Bosquê, Olaf Brzeski, Choi Jeong Hwa, Tara Donovan, DRIFT, Eva Fàbregas, Holly Hendry, EJ Hill, Marguerite Humeau, Jean-Luc Moulène, Senga Nengudi, Ernesto Neto, Martin Puryear, Matthew Ronay, Teresa Solar Abboud and Franz West.

‘This invigorating, joyful exhibition on ‘restless’ sculptures from the past 60 years is full of surprises’

The Telegraph

‘A blast from first to last… this is a tremendous show’

The Observer