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Public Gallery is pleased to present Maison Catabase, the first solo exhibition in the UK by French artist Nils Alix-Tabeling. Uniting new sculptures, photographs and works on paper as well as groups of ornamental furniture; Alix-Tabeling imagines a house on three levels where themes of folklore, witchcraft and the occult prevail, weaving allegories of divine domesticity.

Catabase, from the Greek Katabasis, refers to a journey downward, the equivalent in English to a descent such as the sinking of the sun or crossing into the underworld. The display on the ground floor centres around an …