Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing

Paintings change with the temperature at Serpentine South, where Justin Caguiat uses heat-sensitive pigments in Change Ringing. As conditions shift, forms emerge and disappear across their surfaces, bringing the gallery’s atmosphere into the work.

Bronze bells cast in the shapes of flowers and plant seeds sound in changing sequences throughout the exhibition. Their score, composed by Lily Pickett, draws on English change ringing, while the gallery walls gather and amplify the chimes. Caguiat brings these elements together in an installation that considers buildings as places shaped by repeated actions and accumulated memory.