Encounters: Giacometti at Barbican
This three-part exhibition will bring together the haunting intensity of Alberto Giacometti's elongated figures into direct conversation with contemporary artists, launching in May 2025 with Pakistani-American sculptor Huma Bhabha's post-apocalyptic forms carved from materials including cork and Styrofoam. It will be followed by Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum's quietly charged explorations of exile, fragility and surveillance in September and finally Lynda Benglis's wax and latex works in February 2026. These encounters will invite visitors to see the body and the world through radically shifting perspectives, reimagined through the raw materiality and psychological weight of each artist's response.
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