New life in old spaces: entering the Barbican's Curve Gallery last Wednesday afternoon felt as if was custom-designed to host the curvaceous current exhibition, Tomas Saraceno's dramatic 32-screen installation of video shot from a ring of cameras floating on the Earth's largest salt lake, Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia. In the first of an ongoing series of new commissions for the gallery, the Argentinian artist presents a natural world of fading light and darkness from a poignantly unusual perspective: idealised airborne communities. Unfixed and unconstrained by national, cultural, racial and spatial identities, could this potentially be the ultimate utopia?
Tomas Saraceno, to 16 July, The Curve, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS, 0845 120 7500
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