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Rong Bao Is Me pays testament to Bao’s playful transformation of familiar objects through sculptural practice, prompting us to question our perception of the physical world. The exhibition will invite sensory interactions between audience and artwork, creating a playground of gestures that poke fun at the absurdity of posing order on society. Viewers should prepare to connect with their mischievous sides and participate in a world that pushes the boundaries of acceptability.

 
ABOUT RONG BAO

Bao has earned recognition on both national and international platforms. Notably, she was selected as one of the Top 10 emerging artists for the China UCCA Lab x Perrier New Emerging Artists and shortlisted for New Contemporaries 2022. In 2023, Bao secured the coveted theCOLAB / Royal College of Art / Yorkshire Sculpture Park Award. She recently received the Gilbert Bayes Prize 2024 awarded by the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Connections Through Culture 2023 grants program awarded by the British Council.

 

Pre-booking is advised, but some tickets will be available for purchase at the Gallery each day.

EXHIBITION ADMISSION – Monday to Sunday

Price with Donation
General Admission:                   £19.50 (£17.50 without donation)
Concession*                              £11 (£10 without donation)
Family**                                     £50 (£45 without donation)
Children under 6 years:            Free entry when accompanied by an adult ticket holder

*Students, Seniors 65+, or children 6-16 yrs. Valid proof of status must be presented upon entry if requested.
**2 adults & 2 children under the age of 18

Free Access for Carers
A carer accompanying a ticketholder with accessibility needs will be admitted free alongside the ticketholder. Both parties should enquire with staff upon arrival.

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EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS

Monday – Sunday:                           10am – 6pm
Last Entry for exhibition:                4.30pm

INFORMATION FOR YOUR VISIT

The following items are not permitted within the exhibition spaces: Large bags, luggage, scooters, food and drink (except water in bottles)

This exhibition includes an audio guide. Please bring a set of headphones and look out for the QR codes throughout the show to activate the experience during your visit.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

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This exhibition marks the largest exhibition ever mounted in the 40+ year career of world-renowned photographic artist, Edward Burtynsky, who has dedicated his practice to bearing witness to the impact of human industry on the planet.

Curated by Marc Mayer, former Director of the National Gallery of Canada and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the exhibition features 94 of Burtynsky’s large-format photographs as well as 13 high-resolution murals, and an augmented reality (AR) experience.

A centerpiece of the exhibition is the immersive film presentation of In the Wake of Progress (2022).  A never-before-seen element in this exhibition, referred to as the “Process Archive,” will also showcase Burtynsky’s navigation through each of the technological shifts in the photographic medium that have occurred over recent decades. The exhibition reveals Burtynsky’s lifelong observation of humanity’s incursion into the natural world and the environmental consequences of industrial processes. 

Edward Burtynsky: “I have spent over 40 years bearing witness to how modern civilization has dramatically transformed our planet. At this time, the awareness of these issues presented by my large format images has never felt more urgent. I am grateful to be mounting the largest exhibition of my career at Saatchi Gallery in London, UK and I hope the exhibition experience will continue to provide inflection points for diverse conversations on these issues and move us all to a place of positive action.”

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

As part of the ‘Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction’ exhibition, Saatchi Lates offer Art After Dark on selected Fridays from 6.30PM – 9PM.

26 April

Threads of Change: Art, Conversation, Action

Edward Burtynsky’s striking images ask us what we can do collectively to confront the ongoing climate crisis. In an act of collaborative making, participants at this workshop are invited to create a large-scale artwork using recycled materials whilst openly discussing these global issues.

Rug making – here, Rag Rug making – has a strong history of being a space for open conversation and communion through the act of creation. We ask participants to consider what we leave behind, and how can we come together to create a better world.

Art from Nature: Dendritic Monoprinting

In this session, participants will have the opportunity to explore the remarkable natural forms and patterns seen in Burtynsky’s images using dendritic monoprinting. This technique involves the use of recycled and organic materials, to create your own piece of artwork. You will explore the natural and abstract forms that occur throughout Burtynsky’s imagery. 

Breast Cancer Now brings to the Saatchi Gallery an exhibition of photographs from the future. A groundbreaking series of images created by renowned photographer Jillian Edelstein with the assistance of cutting-edge AI technology. See the moments ten people living with secondary breast cancer want to see and learn how research could give people with the disease more time to live their lives.

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Everyday Monuments showcases works by three emerging UK artists – Catriona Robertson, Jacob Talkowski and Alaric Hammond. Each uses everyday materials in innovative ways – re-utilising and revitalising materials that would otherwise be taken for granted, ignored, or discarded. The artists have taken base materials and infused them with power, meaning and significance.

Their works are beautiful objects in themselves but also invite contemplation of how we routinely use and interact with objects, technology, and architecture. The works invite us to take a fresh look at materials and objects in our own everyday life, outside of a gallery space.

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The Way of All Flesh beckons visitors to contemplate the ephemeral nature of existence, to gaze
into the mirror of mortality, and to recognise the universal embrace of life’s impermanence. This
exhibition is more than a collection of artefacts; it is a communion of minds, hearts, and flesh.

The exhibition promotes questions but promises no answers: it asks us to contemplate the fleeting
nature of life, the fragility of our mortal existence, and the universality of our journey toward the
inevitable. It is an invitation to introspection, a quiet moment of reckoning with the eternal mysteries
that bind us all.

Artists featured in The Way of All Flesh include:

Cristiano Di Martino
Solanne Bernard
Mohanna Fazli-Alishah
Luna Sue Huang
Michel Onésio
Sofía Alrich Veytia
Leon Scott-Engel
Rowley Haynes
Georgie Wileman
Erica Hsu
Pippa El-kadhi Brown
Matt Macken

Einari Hyvönen
Maggie Menghan Chen
Mia Wilkinson
Sally Hewett
Laurie Cole
Fipsi Seilern
Shenying Fan
Joanna Wierzbicka
Curtis Anderson
Eva Dixon
Ben Wakeling
Kitty Rice

Benjamin Murphy
Ant Hamlyn
Manon Steyaert
Edward Thompson
Sunyoung Hwang
Jamie John Davies
Salomé Wu
Marc-Aurèle Debut
Adèle Aproh
Naomi Boiko-Stapleton
Hannah Smith
Mary West

Curated by Delphian GalleryDelphian Gallery, the artist-run, nomadic gallery and arts platform was launched back in 2017 by
Benjamin Murphy and Nick JS Thompson. Primarily London-based, their joint passion is to discover
and show the most captivating and challenging work by emerging and early-career contemporary
artists.

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Saatchi Gallery collaborates with curators to select works direct from the studios of artists in order to present a range of diverse & experimental artworks to a larger audience.

Artists featured in Studio: Response [#4] are:

Saelia Aparico 
Mike Ballard 
Tim Ellis 
Maria Positano 
Christopher Stead 
Melania Toma 
Andrea V Wright

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