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Thinking outside the box: Lygia Pape's Magnetized Space at the Serpentine – in pictures

Lygia Pape: Untitled 1954-56 by Lygia Pape
Untitled, 1954-56 Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Weavings by Lygia Pape
Untitled, from Tecelar (Weavings), 1956
One of the Serpentine's galleries is full of black-and-white woodcut prints and ink drawings
Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Untitled. Tecelar (Weavings) by Lygia Pape
Untitled, from Tecelar (Weavings), 1958 Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Book of Time by Lygia Pape
Lygia Pape, Livro do Tempo (Book of Time), 1961-63, installation view
'A long wall is filled, floor to ceiling, with simple, painted wooden constructions. Each of the 365 little reliefs in Pape's Book of Time represents a day,' writes Adrian Searle
Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Crazy Rocking Trio by Lygia Pape
Trio do embalo maluco (Crazy Rocking Trio), 1968
Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Wheels of Pleasure by Lygia Pape
Roda dos Prazeres (Wheels of Pleasure), 1968 Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Wheels of Pleasure by Lygia Pape
Roda dos Prazeres (Wheels of Pleasure), 1968
The artist herself in a 1968 performance piece
Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Wheels of Pleasure by Lygia Pape
Roda dos Prazeres (Wheels of Pleasure), 1968, installation view at the Serpentine Gallery Photograph: Projeto Lygia Pape and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space by Lygia Pape
Tteia 1,C (Web) at the Serpentine Gallery, 2011
In the Serpentine's darkened north gallery, 'shafts of glimmering golden light strike this way and that from the ceiling to the floor', writes Adrian Searle
Photograph: Tony Kyriacou / Rex Features
Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space by Lygia Pape
Tteia 1,C (Web), installation view at the Serpentine Gallery, 2011
Adrian Searle writes: 'The angled arrays of threads seem to intersect and pass through one another ... This is like living inside one of her woodcuts'
Photograph: Tony Kyriacou / Rex Features
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