Free, drop-in, no booking required
Every Saturday, from 10 Sep 2025 – 11 Jan 2026, visitors are invited to take part in Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes (2011), a work by artist Pedro Reyes.
Museum of Hypothetical Lifetimes is reflective of Reyes’s playful exploration into the experiences of therapy. The installation provides the stage for a therapeutic activity that invites the public to curate their personal life. Using a model museum and a collection of objects and figurines, a ‘therapist’ leads the visitor through this process at specific times throughout the exhibition run.
Psychoanalysis and architecture are among Reyes’s core interests in the fundamental modern ideas underpinning our lives.
ABOUT PEDRO REYES
Pedro Reyes has won international attention for large-scale projects that address current social and political issues. Through a varied practice utilising sculpture, performance, video, and activism, Reyes explores the power of individual and collective organisation to incite change through communication, creativity, happiness, and humour. A socio-political critique of contemporary gun culture is addressed in Reyes’s ongoing Palas por Pistolas, in which the artist worked with local authorities in Culiacán, Mexico, to melt down guns into shovels, then used to plant trees in cities elsewhere in the world. Similarly, in Reyes’ major continuing Disarm series, firearms confiscated by the Mexican government and donated to Reyes have been transformed into instruments, which are then activated by local musicians. Issues of community and compassion are addressed in Sanatorium, activated at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2011), dOCUMENTA 13, Kassel, Germany (2012), The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (2013) and at The Power Plant in Toronto and The Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami (2014). Most recently, Reyes has worked with The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and ICAN to stage anti-nuclear protests and performances across the world. Titled Amnesia Atómica ZERO NUKES, this movement has found platforms in New York; Mexico City; Vienna and Oslo. Alongside these performative, socially engaged strands of his practice, Reyes continues to make sculpture. Carved in red and black volcanic stone, marble and jadeite, these often monumental works that weave between figuration and abstraction reference sources as diverse as Greco Roman statuary; British Modernism and Mesoamerican sculpture.
VISITOR GUIDANCE
This is performance art, the performer is not a trained mental-health professional. The work may evoke emotional responses. Please engage only if you feel comfortable, and know that you can leave at any point. You are not required to participate or share anything personal.