Imagine Action: Curated by Emily Pethick

Ricardo Basbaum, Luca Frei, Melanie Gilligan, Dan Graham, Henriette Heise, Judith Hopf, Gareth Jones, Runo Lagomarsino, John Latham, The Otolith Group, Falke Pisano, Josephine Pryde, Florian Pumhösl, Pia Rönicke, Althea Thauberger, Haegue Yang

This summer, Lisson Gallery will stage Imagine Action, a group show that will look at the space between the individual and the social, bringing together artists that work with a consciousness of social and political relations, spaces and narratives. The exhibition will open with a rare opportunity to see Dan Graham performing his seminal work ‘Performer/Audience/Mirror’, first staged in 1975. Imagine Action continues the gallery’s commitment to artists that have been instrumental in the development of critical and conceptual art, connecting this particular history with a younger generation of international artists.

The exhibition’s title is drawn from an abstracted sculpture of a tree and benches by Luca Frei that creates an inverted public space, first shown in his exhibition ‘To Imagine Action’. Frei’s work was conceived as a representation of a public sphere as a place of community, dialogue and collective knowledge. It is one of a number of works that will be in the exhibition that reflect upon public spaces, forms of social organization, and the past and future of utopian ideas, such as video works by Althea Thauberger, Pia Rönicke and the Otolith Group.