Robert Smithson : Hypothetical Islands

1 Dec 2020-9 Jan 2021

Overview

Hypothetical Islands pays attention to Smithson’s enduring interest in islands. It presents over fifty works spanning 1961 to 1973, many of which are being exhibited for the first time in many decades. For Smithson, islands were speculative sites showing the constantly changing surface of our world and the limits of human knowledge. Some of his islands are locations for sculptural invention, others are sites investigating the formation of landscape through earthworks and sculptures. The selection of works will move from mobile to spiral islands, through forking jetties, meanders, concrete seas and rising volcanoes.