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Exhibition

Phantasmagoria: Folkloric Sculpture for the Digital Age

Sculpture Galleries

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Free Entry

Drawing of a futuristic or alien room, featuring wall-mounted display screens showing images of human and alien faces. The walls and other surfaces look to be made of a dark metal, lit by neon greens and reds.

About the exhibition

This major group exhibition brings together a new generation of artists exploring how digital technologies are reshaping what sculpture can be, and how it can be used to tell stories about our past, present, and future.

Exhibiting artists include Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Nina Davies, Joey Holder, Joe Moss, Most Dismal Swamp, Steph Linn and Philip Speakman, Isaac Lythgoe and Rustan Söderling. Working across sculpture, moving image, performance, video games and installation, new and recent work in the exhibition shares a fascination with the collision of folklore and contemporary digital culture.

Over the past decade, renewed interest in folk traditions, myth and occult practices has emerged alongside the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence, gaming and social media. In Phantasmagoria, these seemingly distant fields of creativity converge. The artists fuse ancient narrative structures with digital processes such as AI manipulation, 3D printing and platform-based media, revealing how fiction, enchantment and collective belief continue to shape our world today.

Access information

Step-free access

Our accessible entrance is on Cookridge Street, with a lift (doors 100cm wide) bringing you onto the ground floor of the building. There…

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Braille & large print

Braille and large print versions of descriptive text about our exhibitions are available at the welcome desk.

Audio guide

We produce audio guides with descriptions of the artworks in our exhibitions. Due to some exhibitions having many artworks, we can’t guarantee that…

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Induction loops

There are induction loops at the welcome desk on the ground floor, library reception and in the seminar room. There is a portable…

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Seating

Seating is always available in our shop and welcome area. You can also pick up a portable seat here to take with you…

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Quiet space

There is a quiet space available in a room off from The Studio on the second floor of the building. Please ask a…

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Quiet times to visit

If you’d prefer a quieter, more relaxed visit, then we recommend visiting on a Tuesday between 10:00 and 12:00. Occasionally we have school…

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Toilets

Outside the seminar room on the basement level we have three gender-neutral superloos (self-contained cubicles with a toilet and sink). Additionally, there is…

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Guide dogs

Guide dogs, hearing dogs and other badged assistance dogs are welcome in our galleries and at our events. There is a small grassy…

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If you would like to talk to us about any access concerns before your visit, you can email us at institute@henry-moore.org, or call us on 01132 467 467.

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