Wolfgang Tillmans - Lighter

First Thursday from Time Out is proud to promote a new solo exhibition from Wolfgang Tillmans.

This exhibition presents a series of interactions between nature and man-made artefacts. In Non Specific Threat, spiders appear to invade an American cityscape from the sky, and in Growth, a creeping plant engulfs its host building whilst a young boy walks past, oblivious to the spectacle behind him.

The first floor gallery contains a large multichannel video installation combining previously unseen and rarely screened work from 1987, 1994 and 2003 with recent footage. Using minimal editing and ambient sound, this series of observational videos are moving images rather than narrative constructions.

The installation of these works follows a logic established through exhibitions of Tillmans' photographs, emphasising the connections and disjunctions between each piece. The presence of nature in the work in the ground floor gallery is echoed upstairs by the close-up sequence of a snail slowly traversing the artist's hand. Another video observes the incongruous combination of the 1990 hit record Wind of Change played by street musicians in front of the Europacentre building in Berlin with its rotating rooftop Mercedes sign.

The exhibition runs at Maureen Paley from Wednesday May 28th to Sunday July 13th and is open Wednesday to Sunday from 11am to 6pm.

Find out more about the Maureen Paley Gallery.

How to get there

The closest tube station is at Bethnal Green.

If travelling by bus the 8, 106, 254, 309, 388, D3 and D6 all serve Bethnal Green.