“Random Access Memory comes at a time of unprecedented physical and metaphorical wall-building.” —Sarah Bejerano
Polish sculptor and installation artist Miroslaw Balka (b. 1958) has exhibited globally for decades on many of the most celebrated platforms, including the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and a commission for the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall. Exploring the interplay of the human body, experience, and memory through installations that challenge our negotiation of space, Balka’s work can seem at once uninviting and opaque, yet familiar and compelling.
Balka is currently featured in a solo exhibition Random Access Memory at White Cube’s Mason’s Yard location in London, through March 9, 2019. For this video, Sarah Bejerano from White Cube discusses the disorienting appeal of the walls that make up part of the exhibition.