North American artist Lucy Raven brings together moving image and sculpture to examine themes of cyclical violence and unrelenting force in the formation of the Western United States.
Rounds presents the UK premiere of Raven’s moving image installation Murderers Bar (2025), the third instalment of her trilogy, The Drumfire. Focusing on the biggest dam removal and river restoration project in US history, Murderers Bar captures a landscape in flux, as the dam, the immense reservoir behind it, and the river now coursing through both, are transformed through the duration of the work.
In collaboration with the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the exhibition also features a newly commissioned kinetic light sculpture. Like Raven’s moving image work, the piece evokes monumental industrial force and its impact on land, ecosystems and communities in the context of the Western United States.
Following its debut at the Barbican, Lucy Raven: Rounds will open at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2026.
Commissioned by Barbican, London and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Sculpture commissioned by Barbican, London and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. Murderers Bar co-commissioned by Vancouver Art Gallery and The Vega Foundation.
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