Originally published on TANK MAGAZINE.

On Venus is the latest solo show by Patrick Staff, a British-born artist who now lives in Los Angeles. Exposing the latent power dynamics that define contemporary biopolitics through a combination of film, text and installation, Staff’s exhibition at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery resembles something from a nearby, dystopian world. Lydia Figes spoke to the artist about surveillance, foreclosing identity and cosmological thinking...