For The End of Imagination, the inaugural exhibition in the Tank, Adrián Villar Rojas takes a unique opportunity to dramatize and radicalize the experience of this former wartime oil bunker that few have seen before. Set in extreme darkness where limits are not known, a host of moving lights operate as sentient beings seeking, surveying, locating, following their own paths and patterns, changing them according to their own needs and will, not ours. Among the shadows, this collective artificial gaze uncovers conflicted objects in a space that was itself born of conflict.

Installation views of Adrián Villar Rojas: The End of Imagination, 2022 in the Tank at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. © Adrián Villar Rojas, photo © Jörg Baumann