Archive by Thomas Demand

Many of Ann Hamilton’s works involve amassing identical or similar objects. Between taxonomy and communion, 1990 – comprising 14,000 human and animal teeth – explores the interconnectedness between human and animal worlds.

Known to avoid interviews by sending a proxy, and escaping his own exhibition openings by stealth, Maurizio Cattelan and his work are complex characters to get to know.

This alluring pile of individually cellophane-wrapped candy is known as Untitled (Public Opinion), 1991. Felix Gonzalez-Torres first executed the work in the USA in 1991 as a protest against the first Gulf War.

Masculinity, penetration, escape, ego, transcendence and metamorphoses are just some of the concepts investigated in Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle film series.

Thomas Demand toys with our faith in photographs and the historical events that we remember through them. In Archive, 1995, he reconstructs the personal inventory of Nazi propagandist and filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl.

The relationship between truth and fiction is played out in this selection of works from Sarah Anne Johnson’s series Tree Planting, 2003-2005, while Gregory Crewdson’s work Untitled (family dinner), 2001-2002, centres on uncanny human behaviour.

These photo-realistic paintings by Jeff Koons overwhelm the viewer, ensuring, like the advertising world, that there is little time to recognise one’s desires before another product is thrust upon us.

Painter Nigel Cooke and photographer Elger Esser play with our comprehension of their work when viewed from near and far, emphasising the act of reflection, rather than the recognition of location.

Sol LeWitt was a pioneer of conceptual, minimal and process art. His geometric Wall Drawing No. 264, 1975, was produced for this exhibition by an assistant who studied with LeWitt.

Bruce Nauman explores the capacity to trick human perception and elicit strong emotional and intellectual responses with his propositions as evidenced in this work Floating Room, 1972 (Light Outside, Dark Inside).