Langlands & Bell: Ideas of Utopia presents artworks which examine attempts – knowing and unknowing – to create utopias whether domestic, religious, social or commercial. The exhibition also considers Charleston as an important place of early modernist social experimentation and questions a building’s power to unite us, separate us, protect us, and inspire thought and creativity.

Langlands & Bell’s work explores the social, cultural and geographical relationship we have with buildings, objects and systems of communication. Central to their practice is an enduring interrogation of the ever-changing role of architecture, interiors, technology and design. From their first-ever collaboration on the installation ‘Kitchen’ (1978), to their more recent series ‘Internet Giants: Masters of the Universe’ (2018), the exhibition brings together works spanning the breadth of their career.