Langlands & Bell

Their work focuses on the complex web of relationships linking people with architecture and the built environment, and on a wider global level, the coded systems of mass-communications and exchange we use to negotiate an increasingly fast-changing technological world.

[2] Langlands & Bell have exhibited internationally throughout their career including in exhibitions at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, the Imperial War Museum, the Serpentine Gallery,[3] and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, at IMMA, Dublin, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, MoMA, New York, the Central House of the Artist, Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Venice Biennale,[4] Seoul Biennale, and CCA Kitakyushu[5][6] and TN Probe,[7] Tokyo, Japan.

In 1996–1997, a major survey exhibition Langlands & Bell Works 1986–1996 co-curated by the Serpentine Gallery, London,[11] and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany [12] also toured to Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa,[13] Palermo, Italy, and Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, Spain.

[16] The group of works includes an interactive computer animation examining the house near Jalalabad occupied by Osama bin Laden in the late 1990s.

[21][22] The largest artworks to date by Langlands & Bell are, the 2004 Paddington Basin Bridge, designed in association with Atelier One (structural engineers), an 8-metre high x 45-metre long white metal and glass pedestrian bridge linking Paddington station and the new Paddington Basin Development, London, with a capacity of up to 20,000 people per day;[23] Moving World (Night & Day) (2007) — two 6 x 18-metre permanent outdoor sculptures of steel, glass, and digitally controlled neon at Heathrow Terminal 5;[24] and China, Language of Places (2009), the 18-metre wall painting exhibited in English Lounge at Tang Contemporary Art, 798, Beijing in 2009.