Ranging in scale, medium and hypnotic intensity, each is an audio-visual by-product of Ikeda’s wide-ranging investigations into the codes and sequences that underpin our world. Having previously worked with the Vinyl Factory at the venue in 2017, Ikeda’s familiarity with the space has resulted in a carefully planned route that connects twelve works.
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Needless to say, he requires no second invite and the exhibition is a suitably full-frontal assault on the senses that remains singed into your retina long after returning to street level. For all the esoteric numbers and technical rubric that surrounds his work however, Ikeda is primarily concerned with something far simpler: the transcendent, almost primordial, power of elemental forces.Īs the largest display of his works to be held in Europe, the exhibition and its labyrinthine venue offers an ideal stage for Ikeda to bring out the heavy stuff. The elusive artist, producer and musician has made sensory overload his signature over the last twenty years, translating raw data into sublime audio-visual encounters. Twenty feet underground, below one of London’s busiest streets, Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda has transformed 180 The Strand’s subterranean levels into an immersive trip of light and dark. Above image: test pattern, 180 The Strand, © Ryoji Ikeda
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