Focus

Imposition, discipline and confinement; wooden tunnels, metal corsets and classrooms

Quotation, collaboration and dissemination; ice lollies, art magazines and floral foam

Tangrams, prints and performance; the Phoenician alphabet, Roman ruins and Greek mythology

Films, the expanded field and photographs; falling vases, melting wax and painted cars

Oriental rugs, Chinese porcelain, inherited jewellery; miniature landscapes, tautological objects and 16mm film

Taped footage, poems and archival material; collage, splicing and cheap effects

Ornithology, rustic landscapes and furniture; ’60s magazines, periodicals and nature books

Biography, autonomy, portals and portholes; photographs, assemblages and sculptures

Suspension, isolation, anticipation; frozen moments, ghostly flowers and floodlit nights

Memory, word games and puzzles; knots, conjuring tricks and cinema

Pleated fabrics, dresses and made-to-measure sculptures; cigarettes, tailoring and shop windows

History and the future; East and West; community and isolation

Mute, restrained objects and photographs; eloquent but evasive literary references

Role-playing and cultural identity; a maharaja, a dandy, a queen and a hairy ‘native’

Quiet afternoons and meditations on the malleability of time

Cultural and subjective mobility; biography, fantasy, myth and rumour

Abstractions of sound and image; the meeting of purity and distortion

Delicacy, vitrines and Modernism; scaffolding, relics and arcades

Collective memory and amnesia; mapping cities and family life

Human rights and urban living; knowledge, complicity and the potential for change