Jaume Plensa’s monumental heads have become one of the most recognisable signatures in contemporary art. Their familiarity raises a more complex question: what happens when a form begins to identify the artist before the artist’s name is even read?

In Ben Sledsens’s paintings, harmony is never simply given. It emerge from a patient construction of colour, space and the relationships between forms. The Maintenance of Paradise examines the visual conditions that make this world possible.