Rab Harling

Rab Harling is a London-based conceptual artist who specialises in experimental, large-format photography and sculptural installations. His practice investigates the social occupation of space, from the urban landscape to domestic interiors, focusing on how people construct a sense of place, and how the design of built environments reflect and actively produce particular social configurations and political ideologies. His installations deconstruct and reassemble pre-conceived ideas about space, they are often site-specific and usually include a philosophical dimensionality, using influences ranging from mathematical philosophy to quantum mechanics. Rab’s work intersects with a long-term debate in urban culture and policy regarding the relationships between environment and behaviour, particularly in the context of the current housing crisis in the United Kingdom, with a particular focus on the effects of gentrification on the vulnerable, and in particular with the socially excluded and insecurely housed. His current research is centred on Poplar, in the inner-East London borough of Tower Hamlets, a neighbourhood that is rapidly being transformed by the construction of dozens of high-rise executive apartments, built for overseas inve...

MA Photography
London College of Communication
University of the Arts, London
2010


BA(Hons) Fine Art (Film)
Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham
1996

Solo Exhibitions

A Delicate Sense of Terror
Lubomirov Easton, London, England
28 June 2013 – 20 July 2013
Curated by Iavor Lubomirov & Bella Easton


Group Exhibitions


Works in progress from Balfron Tower
Cities Methodologies 2014
Slade Research Centre
UCL, Woburn Square, London, WC1H 0HB
28th April – 2 May 2014
Curated by Ben Campkin

Learning to Walk
Cities Methodologies 2014
Slade Research Centre
UCL, Woburn Square, London, WC1H
28th April – 2 May 2014
Curated by ThienVinh Nguyen

Urban Transcripts
ICN Gallery, Leonard Street, London, EC2
8 December 2012 – 14 December 2012
Curated by Maria Tzika & Yiorgos Papamanousakis

Tower Hamlets Spring Open 2012
Mile End Art Pavilion, London, England
28 March – 8 April 2012
Curated by ALISN & Rise Art

BAT Pack II
Mile End Art Pavilion, London, England
30 June – 10 July 2011
Curated by Marcus Cope & Stephanie Moran

Tower Hamlets Spring Open 2011
Mile End Art Pavilion, London, England
March – April 2011
Curated by ALISN, Angus-Hughes Gallery, Charlie Dutton Gallery & SHIFT

MA Photography Show
Upper Street Gallery
London College of Communication
University of the Arts, London
November 2010

Reports from an Ordinary Satellite...