Ernesto Neto and New Décor: the Hayward's summer of art

Ernesto Neto has transformed the Hayward's upper galleries into playrooms that you can touch, smell and walk through. Here a visitor inspects the stretched scrim material that makes up Horizonmembranenave
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H2O-SFLV, a heated outdoor pool that members of the public can book in groups of 16
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Horizonmembranenave, from another angle
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Ernesto Neto stands inside an installation, Circleprototemple
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Breathing the Voyage, an interactive work incorporating camomile and lavender
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Inside the Edges of the World exhibition at the Southbank Centre
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Neto's raised pathway, inspire by the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, forms the shape of an infinity symbol
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A steel sculpture of interlinking parts by Neto, who says of the exhibition: 'Everything is interconnected'.

• Ernesto Neto is at the Hayward gallery, Southbank Centre, until 5 September 2010
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Meanwhile, on the floor below ... The New Décor exhibition gets to grips with the world of interior (and exterior) design
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By reconfiguring the objects of our everyday domestic life (such as this work, Floating Table, by Roman Signer), the artists and designers in this show question our relationship with the spaces we inhabit
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Scandinavian artists Elmgreen and Dragset have installed their humorous work, Marriage, in the men’s toilets. It depicts two sinks joined together by an extravagant drainage pipe
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Bringing the outside, inside ... With Cama, Cuban collective Los Carpinteros have fashioned a bed into a looping overpass junction
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Sternbau No 3 by Lee Bul, one of the artists in The New Décor who aim to portray the home as a darker, more complicated place than design catalogues would have you believe
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5 Rue Saint-Benoît, an installation by Haegue Yang.

• The New Décor is at the Hayward gallery, Southbank Centre, until 5 September 2010
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