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

At the heart of Mise en Abyme: London is the exhibition at The Black Shop in King’s Cross, presented by Wedge. 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. 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 curated and produced by artist-designers Lei Zhang and Peiyan Zou, and presented by Wedge. The exhibition invites audiences not only to view artworks but to step into a shifting reality where each encounter reframes the other, and nothing appears the same twice.