![]() ![]() The effect is both compelling and disconcerting you’re in a gallery, and you’re also a thousand miles away, in someone else’s life, in some other time. ![]() It’s a monstrous, jerry-built labyrinth of dingy rooms, full of grubby decorations that hint at other cultures, transience and anxiety: a bare office counter, a travel bureau advertising cheap flights to Lagos and Singapore, a makeshift prayer-room, and even a grungy bar into which you might have wandered in 1970s Amsterdam. This overdue survey of the British artist’s career revisits and remodels his key works, and is dominated by the extraordinary, Hayward Gallery-filling The Deliverance and the Patience (2001). ![]() Mike Nelson’s claustrophobic installations broke new ground two decades ago, long before “immersive” exhibitions became urban leisure-time staples. ![]()
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