Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Bow ArtsThose attending Bow Arts’ double-bill, held in a former office space on Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End, will be asked to pull up a chair. Take a Seat, one of two site-specific and interactive exhibitions, presents 40 artist-made chairs (available for sitting) which react to the clerical environment. The results include a wooden stool with a spade for a leg and a chair that looks like a frantic cat. In the second exhibition, Absurd Visions, Rosie Gibbens’ Parabiosis explores the pregnant body with sculptures that combine puppets and machinery, while Tim Spooner’s A New Kind of Animal consists of creatures of electrical wire and fake fur under furniture or holding court in the conference room. October 8-November 3, bowarts.orgPamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, BarbicanLondon’s Barbican arts centre originally devised its Curve space as a sound barrier to contain the noise that emanated from its concert hall, but now it hosts bold exhibitions. Botswana-born Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum became fascinated by its “liminality”, the idea of in-betweenness, when she was thinking about her show there, and so, for her first solo show at a major UK institution, she has arranged a series of drawings, paintings and installations that immerse visitors in an imagined 20th-century colonial outpost. The show, an interconnected map of film sets, domestic spaces and colonial bureaucracies, hovers between places real and fictional. To January 5, barbican.org.ukHaegue Yang, Hayward GalleryAn installation by Haegue Yang may consist of collages referencing pagan paper rituals, sculptures made from tangled light bulbs or large hand-knitted vegetables. Her sources of inspiration are similarly extensive, from folk tales to pioneering Modernists. In Leap Year at the Hayward Gallery, participants will walk through a curtain of reverberating blue and silver bells and observe layers of Venetian blinds hanging from the ceiling set to a musical score. October 9-January 5, southbankcentre.co.uk
