Viewing Erwin Wurm’s disembodied clothing and hybrid creatures at Thaddaeus Ropac

Surrogates is the title of Erwin Wurm’s beguiling show at Thaddaeus Ropac, with the artist showing new work featuring painted aluminium sculptures of bodiless clothes that appear like 2D silhouettes. Are they harbingers of the post-human planet? “I am interested in everyday life,” says Wurm. “All the materials surrounding me can be useful, and the objects and topics can be involved in contemporary society. My work speaks about the whole entity of a human being: the physical, the spiritual, the psychological, and the political.”

Along the way, the Austrian artist toys with the boundaries between subject and object, and the human and the non-human, swelling the proportions of everyday items such as a high-heeled shoe and hybridising a figure and a pillow. Surrogates is playful, full of surprises and not to be missed.