Jonathan Baldock features in Homo sacer

This exhibition explores the idea of homo sacer (literally, 'sacred man'). Homo sacer is an ancient Roman concept that suggests a person who has been removed from and placed out of the law and society could be killed without consequence. Through collected sculptures, paintings and video artworks,  'Homo sacer: life unlawed' demonstrates the relationship between the law, our bodies, and our experience and perception of the everyday world.

The exhibition explores a range of entanglements: between art and politics, between the individual and the institution, between humans and non-humans, between the law and the body and between ritual and rules. In doing so, the law is revealed as a messy and visceral bundle of contradictions that regulates our ideas of inside–outside, validity–invalidity, belonging–rejection. The exhibition demonstrates ways in which the abject is an affect of legal withdrawal.