Perfecting the art of collapse

摘要

Thanks to Conrad Shawcross, people in the Greenwich Peninsula area of London have started seeing things that aren't there, to spare them the sight of things that are. For an artist fascinated by the breakdown of rationality, that must count as a success. I visited his studio, intrigued to find out what had inspired his huge, sense-bending new work, The Optic Cloak, and the elegant mechanical artworks that made his name.