The Perimeter is pleased to announce Swimming by Night, Magali Reus’ first institutional exhibition in London since 2018.
Four bodies of new and recent works – Merlin (2024), Streamers (2025), Rig (2025–26) and Subs (2026) – are brought into dialogue with site-specific wall renderings and architectural interventions. Rooted by an interest in ecology and systems of production, this exhibition speaks to the relationship between nature, technology and the impact of post-industrial human activity.
Together, these works play with the dynamics of attention, where objects become carriers of competing narratives around desire, consumption and transformation. Constructed using varied techniques of fabrication, ranging from the handcrafted to the industrial, Reus’ process unfolds through its own material language, where forms and symbols feel familiar yet not immediately determinable.
In the Rig series, wall-mounted sculptures evoke fishhooks or larger-than-life earrings. Poised between adornment and capture, they stage an underlying dynamic of courtship.