Ryoji Ikeda, spectra III, ©Jack Hems, 180 The Strand, 2021.
2. Ryoji Ikeda
Art Contemporary art 180 The Strand, Strand Until Aug 1 2021
Immersive art gets a bad rap, dismissed as twinkly lights and pretty colours designed to get Insta likes. But there's nothing twinkly or pretty about Ryoji Ikeda's exhibition at 180 The Strand, and it is seriously immersive. Instead, the Japanese artist (here with his biggest ever European show) has filled the labyrinthine brutalist spaces of this former office block with eye-searing, brain-liquifying, ear-shredding light and sound installations.
At 180 The Strand, until Aug 1.