CAGUIAT'S SERPENTINE SOUTH SHOW RINGS BRONZE BELLS

Justin Caguiat's Change Ringing opened at Serpentine South in London on 8 October 2026 and runs to 10 January 2027, with free admission. Serpentine calls it the first UK institutional exhibition of his new and recent work, and Caguiat built it from the gallery's own architecture and infrastructure.

Serpentine's announcement says the show, "Working directly with Serpentine South's architecture and infrastructure, this exhibition considers how buildings accumulate memory, ritual and acts of transformation." Institutions are handing artists their buildings as material this autumn; Precious Okoyomon's climbable bear at MoMA PS1 is a courtyard commission built on that idea.

Paintings That Redraw Themselves as Temperatures Shift

Caguiat shows a new series of thermochromic paintings, and each canvas carries layers of heat sensitive pigment. The forms visible on a surface change as the temperature fluctuates, so the paintings are not fixed images, and two visits at different temperatures can show different pictures.

The paintings sit among a wide range of works. Serpentine also describes them as reacting to light, and the installation views from the opening show them hung in the white galleries beside the bells.

Lily Pickett Scores Bells That Never Stop Looping

Bronze bells cast in the shapes of various flowers and plant seeds ring throughout the galleries. Lily Pickett composed the score, which draws on English change ringing, where bells play mechanically in a continuous loop as pistons fire in sequential code.

Change ringing is the practice of sounding a set of tuned bells through set sequences, and it developed in English church towers in the seventeenth century. Here the galleries' walls gather and amplify the chimes, which turns Serpentine South into a listening instrument. London galleries have treated their own rooms as subject before, as in White Cube's twentieth anniversary at Mason's Yard.

Change Ringing is presented with major support from the Bukhman Foundation and Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Installation photographs are by George Darrell, and the exhibition is free to enter at Serpentine South until 10 January 2027.