Gagosian London Presents 'Haunted Realism'

Haunted Realism is a new group exhibition at Gagosian featuring the work of more than 30 acclaimed artists, including Meleko Mokgosi, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, and Tatiana Trouvé. The title of the show is inspired by 'hauntology', a term used by Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book, Specters of Marx, to describe the notion of Marxism to "haunt Western society from beyond the grave."At the core of the exhibition is the idea that the aspirations of modernity have slipped into a decayed state, or a "l...