Anish Kapoor: 'Monadic Singularity' at Liverpool Cathedral's Centenary Spectacular

13 June 2024

From 10 August – 15 September, Liverpool Cathedral will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2024 with a unique exhibition by Anish Kapoor. Titled 'Monadic Singularity', this exhibition marks Kapoor’s first solo show in a UK cathedral and first major solo exhibition in Liverpool since his seminal 1983 presentation at the Walker Art Gallery.

'Monadic Singularity' brings together works that offer an experience of the sublime that is rooted in the corporeal. Staged in the spiritual context of the Cathedral, where significant moments in life such as birth and death are celebrated and ritualised, these artworks in all their evocation of the body, provide connection and inspire awe. Kapoor’s work is saturated in the sense of unconscious knowing, and his use of materials to manipulate our perception and understanding of objects has born a unique sculptural language that inhabits a space of becoming and potential. Pigment, stone, steel, wax and silicone are engineered to the point of a dissolution of boundaries between the material and the immaterial.

Featuring works spanning the past 25 years, including architecturally scaled works never before seen in the UK such as Sectional Body Preparing for Monadic Singularity (2015), this exhibition offers the opportunity to experience a selection of Kapoor’s monumental works in dialogue with Liverpool Cathedral’s gothic architecture.

The exhibition is a highlight in Liverpool Cathedral’s year-long centenary celebrations, commemorating its consecration in 1924.

Find further information via Liverpool Cathedral.

Image: Anish Kapoor, Sectional Body Preparing for Monadic Singularity, 2015, P.V.C, steel, 7.3 x 7.3 x 7.3 m, Photo: D.Saulnier, Interior view: Jonathan Leijonhufvud. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved, DACS 2024.