Walking Through the Ruins at South London Gallery 🎨🏛️

📍 Exhibition Title: Leonardo Drew: Ubiquity II 📅 Dates: Now until September 7, 2025 🕒 Opening Hours: Wednesday to Sunday, extended until 9 PM on Wednesdays 🎫 Admission: Free American artist Leonardo Drew presents his latest sculptural installation, Ubiquity II, delivering a visually and sensorially explosive experience. 🧨✨ Visitors navigate through a landscape of wreckage, immersing themselves in the tension between chaos, order, and the cycle of life. Stepping into the main hall of the South London Gallery feels like stumbling into the aftermath of a silent explosion. 🌋 The earth appears split open, with fragments scattered everywhere—charred timber and scorched soil piled together, evoking a post-apocalyptic scene. Yet, this is no accident; it’s Ubiquity II, a meticulously handcrafted installation by Drew. Drew has long explored themes of decay and regeneration through materials like weathered wood, metal, and fabric. 🪵🔩 In this exhibition, he elevates destruction itself into the core language of sculpture. Visually chaotic, the work conceals an underlying order—every fragment deliberately placed, whispering of hidden structure. The title Ubiquity (meaning "omnipresence") suggests that decay and rebirth are part of nature’s endless cycle. 🔄🌿 Amid the blackened wood, streaks of rust-red and ochre pulse like dormant energy, transforming the gallery into more than a sculpture—it becomes a spatial event, pulling viewers into its "blast radius." This isn’t a traditional exhibition but an embodied journey through temporal ruins. 🚶‍♂️💥 You’ll find yourself drawn to collapsed forms, raw textures, and sudden voids. It offers no answers, only a haunting question: How do we construct meaning in a world that seems to crumble? “Destruction is difficult; indeed it is as difficult as creation.” ✍️🔥 #MyExhibitionDiary #ContemporaryArtSpace #HiddenArtSpaces #ModernArtGallery #LondonExhibitions #OffbeatExhibits #VirtualGradShow