It's disconcerting when you walk into an art gallery and one of the exhibits moves towards you. That's what happens at Space Shifters, the new exhibition of spatial perception-challenging art from the last half century at the Hayward Gallery. Here visitors encounter 20 artworks that act as 'optical devices' to redirect how we see space, including Josiah McElheny's aforementioned Interactive Abstract Bodies, a series of mirrored mobile sculptures worn a bit like sandwich boards by performers moving around the gallery in carefully choreographed steps. From the distorted reflections of Anish Kapoor's stainless steel Non-Object (Door) to Richard Wilson's unsettling 20:50 room full of sump oil, this playful exhibition is a crowd pleaser that invites interaction. There is a lot of movement - sometimes by the artwork itself but more often by the visitor, who is encouraged to navigate the piece.
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