Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism

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Haunted Realism review – a queasy, intoxicating view of late capitalism
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Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Jenny Saville and co explore the age of ‘lost futures’ in a group show that works best unimpeded by theory

, the two in dialogue in highly uncomfortable ways. But at other moments it’s more explicit, the tables having been turned so it is the visitor who is observed. There are eyes all over the place, most notably in the form of Urs Fischer’s sculptureNeil Jenney’s Modern Africa #3, 2016-20.sometimes pulpy and sometimes eldritch, takes its title from “hauntology”, a word coined by Jacques Derrida to denote the way the past lingers inside the present.

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