Exhibition
Ad-Lib
9 May 2025 – 23 May 2025
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- 5 Grays Inn Road
- London
England - WCIR 5PL
- United Kingdom
Considering the complex relationship between simulation, hyperreality, spontaneity and performance, Ad-Lib is conceived as an extemporaneous act – a momentary coming together of expressions, objects and moments.
About
Exploring the tension between spontaneous behaviour and crafted performance, a collection of work across performance, sculpture, painting and sound are caught in the act – frozen as decoys that lure the real. As we collectively navigate a world saturated with media, signs and spectacle, Ad-Lib looks to question what we know to be real and what we understand to be simulated, and how the blurring of the two might be reconciled. If there is a loss of a genuine, unmediated experience, are there uncontrolled actions – can we be spontaneous?
Rob Branigan, Jack Catling, Erato Chatzisavva, Kate Davis & David Moore, Catherine Ferguson, Rebecca Fortnum, Luca George, Matthew Luck Galpin, Giorgos Kontis, Christina Mamakos, Giannis Mitrou, Liz Murray, Bona Rays, David Stearn, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Julia Vogl, Aaron Williamson, Sharon Young
XYZ Grays Inn opened in 2024 as an artist led gallery in heart of Central London. As part of The Muse UK charity for the arts, we support subsidised project and residency spaces in partnership with local authorities and commercial landlords of London.
