Paradigm Shift

180 Studios presents Paradigm Shift in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta

Opening Wednesday 15 October 2025, Paradigm Shift will transform 180 Strand's vast subterranean spaces with a landmark exhibition spanning the most acclaimed moving image works from the 1970s to today, drawing on avant-garde cinema, television, music video, performance, fashion, gaming, and internet culture.

Featuring works by artists: Sophia Al-Maria, Meriem Bennani, Dara Birnbaum, Foday Dumbuya, Cao Fei, Tremaine Emory, Nan Goldin, Arthur Jafa, Derek Jarman, JulianKnxx, Mark Leckey, Josèfa Ntjam, Pipilotti Rist, Martine Syms, TELFAR, Ryan Trecartin, Gillian Wearing and Andy Warhol.

Looking back to look forward Paradigm Shift traces multiple revolutions within moving image culture. From Warhol Fashion TV in the 1970s to TELFAR TV today, the screen is a stage where everyone can be a broadcaster, commentator, performer, and artist.

Technology is central to the story: it shapes how the films are created, their visual language, and reveals our ongoing relationship to the screen as a site of self-production.

Several new works commissioned by 180 Studios sit alongside iconic historical works that offer a view of paradigms shifted by artists innovating with form and format to break and change the rules of image making.