David Zwirner is pleased to announce Spirit Level, a solo exhibition by Tau Lewis (b. 1993) at the gallery’s Los Angeles space at 616 N Western Avenue. The exhibition features five monumental sculptures and a circular quilt that debuted at Lewis’s 2024–2025 solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, curated by Jeffrey De Blois.

The works in Spirit Level emerged from a period of profound loss for Lewis. In the conception of these anthropomorphic figures, the artist developed respective identities and narratives that implicate our ancestral pasts, spiritual and cultural similitudes, and multiplanar existences. Comprising found and inherited objects, each sculpture embodies the transitional period in which they were made as well as the liminal space in a material object’s journey as it changes hands and takes on a new form.

Drawing from the faces of the Caribbean Sea, techno and dub music, literature, and studies of religion and spirituality, with this exhibition Lewis expands her world-building, weaving figures that reappear across her practice, connected by what she calls their “material DNA.” In the gallery’s airy space, these stately sculptures gather in quiet majesty, engaged in a silent spiritual dialogue.