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Teaming with
rain as I emerged from Lancaster Gate tube and a murky walk through the park to
reach the new Serpentine Sackler Gallery and Zaha Hadid’s beautifully crafted café.
The smooth flowing lines a stimulating contrast to the rough, hand marked grey
clay which makes up the bulk of Adrian Villar Rojas’s exhibition ‘Today We
Reboot the Planet’.
The straining
exertion of the elephant at the opening of the show, its exhaustion palpable as
it pushes against the interior wall of the gallery is partially explained as
the visitor is guided into the ‘inner sanctuary’ behind. Here lies a ‘laboratory’
of stuff, much of it made of clay and some alive with vegetation, detritus of
every kind, row by row, shelf by shelf. Bones, birds, animals, vegetables,
crockery and vessels all jumbled together. The elephant is straining to keep
this at bay, to hold back the tide? Then in the next vast room a cathedral of
emptiness, silent and still with soft light filtering through two stained glass
windows high above!
What an
amazing feat of imagination and vision by this artist! Once again using the
mundane, the ordinary, and the overlooked we are asked to think and question
and pause ...to take a longer look.
Sadly this
exhibition finishes today, I am sorry if you missed it but at least the
elephant can now take a break from her herculean task.
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