Image: Barbican Centre, London
The Barbican Centre in London is counting down the final days of Liam Young’s immersive exhibition 'In Other Worlds', which closes on Sunday 6 September at The Curve. The presentation is described by the Barbican as an exploration of future worlds, created in collaboration with voices from film, television, literature and science, and it uses large-scale films, soundscapes, audio stories and set pieces to bring Young’s imagined environments to life.
The Barbican has positioned the work within its summer programme alongside other major exhibitions, but 'In Other Worlds' stands apart as an immersive commission in The Curve rather than a conventional gallery display. The venue’s own listings describe it as an exhibition imagining future worlds, while a newsletter sent by the institution highlights the show as one of the season’s key closing attractions.
According to the Barbican, the project’s worlds are shaped through collaboration with leading voices from several disciplines, and its presentation relies on a mix of media rather than static objects. The exhibition’s materials emphasize the combination of audio stories, films, soundscapes and physical set pieces, suggesting a work designed to surround visitors rather than simply be viewed from a distance.
The exhibition opened on 21 May and runs until 6 September 2026. Its setting, The Curve, is one of the Barbican’s more distinctive spaces and is regularly used for ambitious installations and large-scale immersive projects. In the context of the centre’s wider summer offer, the show is one of two major exhibitions promoted in the same outreach, alongside 'Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica' in the Art Gallery.
The Barbican’s description also points to external critical attention for 'In Other Worlds'. The newsletter cites a five-star review from The Stage calling it a 'Sublime immersive experience', and a four-star review from TimeOut describing it as 'Weird, psychedelic and vividly imaginative'. Those quoted responses appear in the institution’s promotional material and underscore the show’s reception, though the Barbican’s own factual listing remains focused on format, collaborators and closing date.
The exhibition is listed on the Barbican website under its immersive programming, where the centre also identifies Liam Young as the artist behind the project. The page does not provide further biographical detail in the source material supplied, but it does make clear that the exhibition is presented as part of the Barbican’s 2026 programme and that visitors have until the end of Sunday 6 September to see it at The Curve in London.
