It’s very simple: we are bodies first, though we consist of mental qualities and spiritual qualities and psychological qualities… And the body is our first measure of relation to the rest of the world. — Erwin Wurm

Thaddaeus Ropac London presents Surrogates, an exhibition of new sculptures by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, including three series of works shown for the first time: Paradise, Mind Bubbles and Dreamers. On view concurrently with the artist’s major institutional survey at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in Wakefield, the exhibition features painted metal and epoxy resin sculptures, alongside key developments in the continuation of his iconic One Minute Sculptures. Together, the works assembled embody Wurm’s characteristically expansive approach to the concept of sculpture as he disrupts traditional distinctions between subject and object, the human and the non-human, spectator and participant.