This show may be predictive of what many will be like in the future. It relies entirely on solar power , so some works will look different or not function fully during cloudy weather. In heatwaves, the gallery will effectively shut, because the climate control system has been turned off (one wonders how elastically the Serpentine may come to judge what constitutes a heatwave).
The exhibition’s functionality, or potential lack thereof, is as much part of the Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno’s overall concept as anything you can see or experience here. This is an avowedly post-anthropocentric exhibition, one that foregrounds interspecies coexistence and communication, positions us in an interconnected global ecosystem and seeks to separate us from convenient modern trappings.
