Susan Hiller, Lisson Gallery, London
With a career spanning over six decades, this exhibition by video and installation artist Susan Hiller features key works split across four themes: transformation, the unconscious, belief systems and the role of the artist as collector and curator. Highlights include three major installations exploring ideas of the unconscious and paranormal, plus Hiller’s most recent multi-panelled work, On the Edge (2015).
Until 9 January 2016, lissongallery.com
Diango Hernandez, MOSTYN, Llandudno
Conceptual artist Diango Hernandez’s work draws on his experiences whilst growing up in Cuba. This jam-packed show features a site-specific wall mural; a series of fruit sculptures and reclaimed furniture; works on canvas and offset printed paper; and a fragile construction of rusted steel – a numerical representation of the years 1959 to 2008 in descending order.
Until 6 March 2016, mostyn.org
Giles Bailey and Jeremiah Day, CCA, Glasgow
Both artists in this show explore language through their work. London-based Giles Bailey works largely with performance, writing or strategically appropriating texts that he performs himself. Meanwhile, American artist Jeremiah Day’s work employs photography, speech, and improvisational movement.
Until 10 January 2016, cca-glasgow.com
Safe, HOME, Manchester
This group exhibition features a series of new commissions in moving image, sculpture, print, writing and performance. Part of a new series of exhibitions that takes a classic or influential film as inspiration, in this case it’s Todd Haynes’ Safe from 1995. Artists include: Claire Makhlouf Carter, Chris Paul Daniels, Yoshua Okon, James Richards, Camilla Wills, Michael Dean, Sunil Gupta, Laura Morrison and Jala Wahid.
Until 3 January 2016, homemcr.org
Another Minimalism, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Tracing the influence of West Coast American minimalism on artists living today, this show features work by Robert Irwin and Larry Bell alongside contemporary practitioners such Olafur Eliasson, Tacita Dean and Carol Bove. The exhibition explores the perceptual and psychological aspects of seeing in optically inventive forms, structures, spaces, images and narratives.
Until 21 February 2016, fruitmarket.co.uk
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