David Lawrey & Jaki Middleton, Eternal Return, 2023 (detail). Video: the artists.
Eternal Return is a physical manifestation of the artists’ interest in the structural drivers of production, consumption, and waste – and their discomfort with their own complicity in these unsustainable cycles. The project evokes the sense of disquiet and overwhelm that has come to define our contemporary era.

'Eternal Return', sculpture, 2023 (interior detail). Photo: the artists.

'Eternal Return', sculpture with kinetic model components, 2023 (interior detail). Photo: the artists.

'Eternal Return', sculpture with kinetic model components, 2023 (gallery installation view). Photo: the artists.