Mirrorcity review reflections on a relentless rush of nonsense

Hayward Gallery, London
This art show for the digital age is a catastrophic mix of the harebrained and the talentless and it heralds disaster for Londons artistic ambitions

What will the art of the future look like? In JG Ballards book Vermilion Sands, femme fatale sculptors create bizarre sound art that resonates inhumanly in the empty warmth of a California-like brain-free zone. I wish I was there. Ballards pop desert sounds like very heaven compared with the truly catastrophic science-fiction montage that is the Hayward Gallerys Mirrorcity.

Whats it about? Well. The poster promises artists from London meditating on fiction and reality. However, it quickly becomes clear that Mirrorcity is not about London, or storytelling. It is about the digital age. All the artists evoke the information overload, the flood of images and the very short attention span of the technological future weve already arrived at.

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