Amar Kanwar

You walk in and can't see your own shoes. Serpentine North is kept so dark that the Standard's critic was startled by a gallery assistant looming out of the gloom, and watched a woman fall over a chair. Then screens surface: a peacock preening wet feathers, dried flowers in a wooden bowl, sunlight on water.

There are three works, all shadowed by the 1947 Partition of India. Such a Morning (85 minutes) follows a maths professor who blacks out the windows of a train carriage in a forest. The Peacock's Graveyard (2023) plays across seven screens, and The Charcoal Man (2026) premieres here. Lit paper screens on the walls stand for the professor's 49 kinds of darkness. All three run to about three hours.

The Standard gave it five stars and said it "could change your life – if you let it"; the Guardian (four stars) called it "superbly staged" and warned it "makes demands on your patience". Sit down, ideally at the front, and stay. Entry is free.