Sam Keogh's work spans installation, sculpture, performance, drawing and collage. His installations often facilitate a performance which transforms sculpture into props and collage into mnemonic devices or surfaces to be read as visual scripts. For Cosmopolis #2, the artist presents a densely clustered root system which hangs overhead, made from a combination of organic and inorganic materials collected from the interstitial spaces of the urban environment, small strips of fallow land between train tracks or on the sides of motorways where trash, weeds and invasive species thrive together. This object will be unfurled during a performance developed in Paris over a month-long residency. Its rhizomatic form interconnects disparate anecdotes, histories and descriptions of physical and biological process to present strange and abject cosmology of trash, contamination and revolt.

On 17 and 28 November Sam Keogh presents performances of the work.