BSL Tour with John Wilson on Encounters: Giacometti x Huma Bhabha

A street of ghostly figures appears as contemporary artist Huma Bhabha's monumental sculptures forge new dialogues with works by 20th century sculptor Alberto Giacometti. 

Within a new, intimate gallery in the Barbican works by Huma Bhabha and Alberto Giacometti speak to how conflict and war turn human life into collateral damage. 

Works from across Bhabha's career and a new iron sculpture created for the exhibition are displayed alongside iconic works by Giacometti, made mostly in the aftermath of World War II.  

Here, the modern and contemporary meet, and the body becomes a landscape for the traumas of our times. Spanning nearly a century of artmaking, the works’ mediums range across plaster, bronze, terracotta and found objects.