Currently on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, untitled (the form of the flow is unknown to the seed) (2019) is a newly commissioned site-specific work by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Situated in the ICA’s lower bar, the work is complete with a sake bar, communal seating and table set within a painted sunrise and sunset scene. untitled (the form of the flow is unknown to the seed), (2019) frays the boundaries of the traditional exhibition format in favour of a presentation that promotes a sense of shared experience, born out of a social space that the work provides. By defusing the locality of the art object Tiravanija thus creates an environment that places emphasis upon the use value of the work in order to subvert our expectations surrounding its place within the logic of labour and virtuosity.

The presentation of this new work marks Tiravanija’s return to the ICA following his historic exhibition, Real Time in 1993.