Mise en Abyme: London — Objects in entanglement. Spaces in reflection.

Wedge presents a new façade intervention at The Black Shop in King’s Cross that treats the building’s street-facing surface as a living interface between digital data and public space. Bringing together artists from across disciplines, the show extends the studio’s ethos of ecological material research into a wider cultural dialogue. The participating works respond to conditions of material instability and temporal dislocation, creating installations that move between sculpture, moving image, sound, and hybrid media. Each piece engages with states of recursion and reflection, offering dreamlike architectures and shifting perceptions where reality and memory blur. The exhibition is conceived as a psychological and spatial study of entanglement: a place where visitors encounter echoes, distortions, and mirrored fictions. Materially, the façade is realized through binder jetting in recyclable quartz silica sand. The grain of a pixel becomes the grain of a print; finite resolution is sedimented as matter. Each component is designed for disassembly, re-crushing, and re-printing, enabling the project to evolve with subsequent scans of the site. This circular workflow — data → volume → matter → data — means the façade can be updated as the street changes, and the material can be recirculated with minimal waste. In this way, The Black Shop operates as a public experiment in sustainable fabrication as much as it is an aesthetic proposition for the future. As a counterpoint, Wedge also presents its Epoch II: Anomalies collection at Space House as part of Material Matters, showcasing the studio’s research into ecological materials and additive sand-printing technology. Together, the two sites reveal Wedge’s vision of sustainability as an aesthetic force, and its commitment to design as both research and artistic practice. Participating Artists Arko Bhowmik | Anastasia Solodov | Choga (Design Collective) | Duru Bebekoğlu | Jiaqing Chen | Lifeng Liao | Valeriia Chemerisova | Yasemin Gunhos | Yier Lu | Yilun Liu | Yuchen Wu & Rockforth Datuin Production & Exhibition Support Wedge | Andy Zhang | Yuhan Wu | Yinuo Pan With Special Thanks Peter Cook Architecture Studio | Shuheng Wang | Cem Dilekci Mise en Abyme: London at The Black Shop is conceived and realised by artist-designers Lei Zhang and Peiyan Zou, and presented by Wedge. The exhibition reconfigures the gallery through architectural and material interventions that choreograph light, movement, and conversation, turning the space itself into an instrument of reflection and investigation.