Liz Larner's Asteroid-Inspired Ceramics Make UK Institutional Debut at Camden Art Centre

Camden Art Centre in London is hosting the first institutional UK exhibition of American sculptor Liz Larner. The show features roughly six large ceramic works, each modeled on a NASA scan of a real asteroid and re-formed in glittery, gritty ceramic, installed directly on the gallery floor as though they had just crashed through the atmosphere. The asteroids depicted are named after ancient Greek or Roman goddesses, and the review notes that mining rights to such space objects are already being traded by corporations. The reviewer reads the works as gleaming symbols of corporate greed, ecological collapse and sexism, describing them as comets of misery sent from the future to land on Finchley Road. Despite these portentous ambitions, the review concludes that the exhibition fails to make much impact and would have benefited from a simpler approach. The show is Larner's first institutional exhibition in the UK.