A paunchy older man, his feet braced heavily against the floor, is counterbalanced by a vital young hen, coiled like a well-feathered spring. Positioning these unlikely combatants at either end of a table, Ron Mueck fills this sculpture with tension – it’s a tennis match, or a chess game, or maybe a trap. His protagonists look very different, but what they share is attitude; their unbreakable focus charges the narrow space between them. Neither is in any mood to back down. But what’s at stake here? And who should we be rooting for?

(Dummies & Doppelgängers, 2 November 2024 – 23 March 2025)