Veronica Ryan
in ‘Portable Sculpture’, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
18 May – 5 September 2021
Veronica Ryan, Liminal Spaces, Feathers In Her Head and Sewing Seeds 2, all 2019, installation view, ‘Portable sculpture’ Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2021. Courtesy: Henry Moore Institute and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York © Veronica Ryan; photo: John McKenzie
Portable Sculpture brings together work from 1934 to the present day. Featuring fifteen artists, including Hannelore Baron, Walead Beshty, Louise Bourgeois, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Liz Ensz, Barry Flanagan, Mohamad Hafez, Romuald Hazoumè, Charles Hewlings, Do Ho Suh, Veronica Ryan, Andrea Zittel and presenting new work made for the exhibition by James Ackerley and Claire Ashley.
The word ‘sculpture’ is often associated with large, immobile objects that are weighty and permanent, but sculpture is not always fixed in place: sculpture can be mobile, agile and endlessly adaptable.