Solar's 2017 solo exhibition «Ground Control» at Barcelona's Galería Joan Prats featured works from her «Crushed by pressure» (2017) series: potter's - wheel - thrown ceramic forms that are held in tension with elastic cords, or clasped
by metal poles as if aberrant prostheses were gripped by outsized chopsticks.
These range from horror films, such as the House of Wax (2005) remake, which has Paris Hilton hilariously impaled
by a metal pole (no, that's not a euphemism) to Orphan (2009), a gloriously silly and overstated horror film involving a killer child.
I move confidently about my box of darkness, lay my hand easily on the cotton - covered firmness of the bed, grasp the chair in the corner
by the smooth curved
poles that form its back, reach for the cool
metal handle of the door and hear its catlike creak.
Of particular interest is an installation
by Keith Farquhar at High Art, who presents childrens» car seats attached to floor - to - ceiling
metal poles and Florian Germann's pink fountain structure at Galerie Gregor Steiger.
Visitors to the English Gardens can also encounter an over-sized snake ring in polished concrete
by Kathleen Ryan (François Ghebaly, Los Angeles); a large marble form
by Tony Cragg (Lisson Gallery, London); an anthropomorphic bronze
by William Turnbull (Offer Waterman, London); a work from the «Signal» series
by Takis (Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp); Dominique Stroobant's elegant geometric composition (Axel Vervoordt, Antwerp); a new solar - powered light and sound piece
by Haroon Mirza (Lisson Gallery, London), developing from his intervention at the Museum Tinguely, Basel, earlier this year; a large painted and lacquered
metal piece
by Gary Webb (The Approach, London); an oversized beaten steel shoe
by Aaron Angel (Rob Tufnell, London); a new ceramic «totem
pole»
by Jesse Wine (Limoncello, London); a colony of rabbits made from plastic bags
by Leo Fitzmaurice (The Sunday Painter, London) and Seung - taek Lee's monumental balloon model of the earth, which will gradually deflate across the course of the fair (Gallery Hyundai, Seoul).