Ali Banisadr: ‘The World Upside Down’

In pointillist drawings of women urinating in public at Guts Gallery, London, the artist captures moments of feminine solidarity

In a rich exhibition at Corvi-Mora, London, the artist draws on an eclectic set of references to reimagine cultural inheritances 

In an immersive exhibition at Somerset House Studios, London, the artist reflects on the 2011 London riots and the struggle for agency

At Opera Gallery, London, the artist works with charcoal and chiaroscuro to depict a pantheon of deities

In a packed retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, the artist’s depictions of everyday objects take centre stage

In her latest show at Waddington Custot, London, the artist’s triptychs reimagine the sacred through large-scale abstraction 

At Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, the artist uses theories from quantum physics to weave a narrative of human connection

From Tarek Lakhrissi’s exploration of eroticism’s liberating potential at Nicoletti to an exhibition of rarely-seen Jack Whitten works at Hauser & Wirth

At Arcadia Missa, London, the artist’s painted radiator units become geopolitical abstractions that provoke a deeper interrogation of global power dynamics

Ahead of his first institutional show at Camden Art Centre, the artist discusses how London’s architecture shapes the eroticism in his assemblages