Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter

Monika Sosnowska: Weight of Matter is a solo exhibition of sculpture spread across the Main Gallery and the Fire Station of the South London Gallery. It is by the Polish artist Monika Sosnowska, whose work explores architecture and urban transformation, reflecting on the implosion of the communist regime in Poland and the legacy of modernism. It brings together monumental sculptures made from steel, concrete and other industrial materials, including large-scale hanging works suspended from the Main Gallery rafters, some weighing over half a tonne, alongside a sculpture of a collapsed black metal staircase and plant-like forms forming a concrete garden. Rarely seen paper models through which Sosnowska develops her ideas are shown for the first time in London as part of the exhibition.