Launch event: Tuesday 14 October 2025, 4 – 7.30pm

We spend so much of our lives online via our smartphones, computers, televisions, and gaming consoles, but do we ever consider the vast physical infrastructures that underpin our digital experiences? The miles of undersea cables, the massive data centres, the mountains of cooling circuits, concrete and metal. In Hiddenware, artist Robert Cervera seeks to make visible this hidden materiality, inviting us to reconsider our relationship to the virtual world. Robert worked with local video gamers and musicians to co-create audiovisual performances, culminating in an exhibition that bridges sculpture, video, music and live streaming in the gallery.

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Robert Cervera is a London-based interdisciplinary artist born in Barcelona. He studied music at the Professional Conservatoire in Badalona (Spain) and graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Sculpture in 2014. His work includes sculpture, installation, video and music, with a strong interest in materiality and our relation to it. He also builds tube structures that can be played as instruments. The sounds they produce form the basis of musical compositions, music coding and live performances.

He has recently performed in the UK (Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Iklectik, London; Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London; all 2023) and in Spain (Eufonic Festival, 2022). He has shown extensively in the UK, Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Mexico. Recent solo exhibitions: A Constellation of Conduits (with Andreas PM) at Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, 2023; To Vent Invites Robert Cervera, Zabludowicz Collection, London, 2021; Ye_soft_pipes/play_on, Tangent Projects, Barcelona, 2020; Yes And, Kelder Projects, London (with Peter Lamb), 2019; Tomorrow Starts Here, La Escocesa, Barcelona, 2017.

Supported by Cockayne Grants for the Arts, a Donor Advised Fund, held at The Prism Charitable Trust.