Anish Kapoor in Conversation with Darian Leader
Enter the remarkable world of Anish Kapoor: the internationally celebrated artist shares rare insight into his work with author and psychoanalyst Darian Leader.
For more than four decades, Kapoor has experimented with an extraordinary range of materials to create sculptures and paintings that provoke disorientation, wonder and heightened awareness – works that turn the world not only upside down, but inside out.
This summer, Kapoor returns to the Hayward Gallery with an ambitious exhibition that occupies the entire building, including three outdoor sculpture terraces, with a diverse array of works that evoke powerful and uncanny feelings.
Together, Kapoor and Leader explore the psychological, spatial and philosophical dimensions of Kapoor’s practice, offering rare insights into the work of one of the most remarkable artists of our time.
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Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst working in London. He’s a member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research and also a member of the College of Psychoanalysts – UK.
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