Chisenhale Gallery invites Frieze VIPs for Brunch and a private view of Nikita Gale’s 'IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS' with an introduction to the exhibition led by Chisenhale Director Zoé Whitley.

Gale sculpts concrete and metal, light and sound. Composing atmospheric, large-scale installations, Gale’s practice orbits themes of invisibility and audibility, interrogating the unstable relationship between performer and spectator, structure and ruin.

Building on Gale’s 'RUINER' series (2020-present) — aluminium armatures evoking crowd-control barriers, wrapped with concrete-saturated strips of cloth — the Chisenhale commission, 'IN A DREAM YOU CLIMB THE STAIRS', consists of remnants of a performance rendered in concrete.

The exhibition takes Toni Morrison’s 1977 novel Song of Solomon as its starting point, notably the character of Circe, who shares her home with a pack of Weimaraner dogs. Referencing a passage from the book in the exhibition’s title, Gale brings to life an ambitious interpretation of Circe’s feral and free domain — once a grand house, now a decaying testament to the greed and violence of the family she previously served but outlived. The installation is a materialisation of what might happen when social infrastructures of visibility and performance turn to ruin.

This event is hosted with generous support from Le Deli Robuchon.

Booking is required as capacity is limited 

Please RSVP directly to rsvp@chisenhale.org.uk