Maureen Paley presents an exhibition of new sculptures by Rebecca Warren in both Bethnal Green gallery spaces.
“I imagined this show as a retrospective being made by a slightly different version of me. Like making your work now, in the usual way, but also oddly in the mode of a retrospective, so that each thing shifts between two time frames. Everything seems familiar but strange somehow, right but not quite right. Like there’s another version of you who’s doing it simultaneously...” Rebecca Warren, 2026 There Will Be Another You (2026) is a bronze life-size reclining nude female, dropped or resting, limbs melting or morphing, exposed sinews and wires, two right arms, no left arm, a mix of blur and focus in the rendering. The paint is dripped, striped, pooled. Far more like an effigy on a sarcophagus lid than a woman on a bed. Lying in state, lying in wait. So, mortality? Something like that, but more Hellenic in tone than Christian. The swirling uncertainties of the underworld are at play rather than any definitive final score. Human imagination used to be the only way into these zones.