In Scaled-Down, Michael Landy turns to the methods of industrial waste compaction. The process of destruction becomes not one of obliteration, but of transmogrification and renewal, as sculptures and drawings are re-imagined and re-shaped in unsparing, compressed sculptural form.

Using methods of industrial waste compaction, devised in the commercial sphere for their efficiency of form, Landy has worked systematically to make new works in the form of densely packed cubes, made from his own past artworks. Obsessively ordered in his process-based approach, Landy devised a rigorous set of rules to follow, compacting groups of works by series to a set of defined parameters. Series ranging from 2004 to the present - including ‘H.2.N.Y’, ‘Saints Alive’, ‘Breaking News’, ‘In Your Face’ - are compressed into regular forms in a systematic process. Cubes take on their own texture, defined by the materials of their constituent works. Compression in some result in layered stratum of material like rock sedimentation through which the histories of past exhibitions and labour can be read. Taken together as a group, the cubes embody a condensed archaeology of Landy's recent artistic history; a compact survey in miniature.

One cannot help but read the cubes of Scaled-Down within the economic context of their making: a globalised art-world of commodification, perhaps over-production, where hungry art buyers consume at fairs, efficiently and at speed. However, Landy is much less interested in this possible implicit critique of the new market we find ourselves in, or in any possible environmental reading, than in the works' own materiality and sculptural qualities: their form, texture and character, indeed even their personalities.

The exhibition will run until the 17th of November 2018 and is free to attend.