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In ‘Anchor’, four figures bear a teenaged, androgynous body wearing an oversized shirt in acid pink. Only two faces of those carrying the body are visible: vacant and tender, the eyes and noses, dislocated or disarranged. Their arms, lightly draped over the central figure, seem somehow to support their charge who, radiating fluorescence, is about to slip through their arms. Caught between descent and ascent, lowering and raising, it is not clear there is sufficient gravity to make things fall.

Based in London, Helyer –who has been showing work since studying at Chelsea in the 1990s– presents …