16 May – 20 June
Mondays–Fridays (11am–6pm)
Saturdays (11am–4pm)
Michael Samuels' exhibition at Bloomsbury's Rokeby precedes this year's Jerwood Contemporary Painters tour, for which the artist has been nominated. Taking an experimental approach to the idea of flat-pack furniture, Samuels constructs fantastical, furniture-based sculptures with no practical use whatsoever. Table legs are carefully balanced atop kitchen tables that have been reassembled according to primary-colour coding, conjuring hybrid monuments to an imaginary, post-Ikea utopia. Meanwhile, salvaged desk lamps spotlight humble items of domestic leisure, celebrating their form and colour.
– Helen Holtom