Eddie Peake at the Barbican: The Forever Loop art show features naked dancers and rollerskaters in sheer onesies

Peake hopes to 'take viewers on a dramatic journey' round the Curve gallery, exploring sexuality and desire

Eddie Peake is known for using the naked body in his art projects (Sebastiano Pellion di Persano)

If you go down to London’s Barbican today, you’re sure of a big surprise. Do not be alarmed when you find a rollerskater in a sheer onesie gliding around between fully naked dancers, brightly-coloured whale bones, Perspex bears and maze-like wall structures.

Eddie Peake, known for staging a nude five-a-side football match while studying at the Royal Academy, has taken over the Curve gallery with a multimedia art installation combining the absurd with the erotic.

Titled The Forever Loop, the project is a choreographed performance that promises to “take viewers on a dramatic journey” exploring sexuality and desire. For ten hours a day, seven days a week, dancers move around the architectural space, which features a raised scaffold walkway, 90-metre fluorescent pink text painting, home videos and a chequer-board dancefloor.


 Credit: Justin Piperger for the Barbican
 (Justin Piperger, Barbican)


 Credit: Justin Piperger for the Barbican
 (Justin Piperger, Barbican)

“I want to convey a narrative in which unrequited desire, jealousy, love and other real emotions implicit in the experience of being in a relationship with another person, as well as the various manifestations of one’s sense of self, are all emphatically alluded to,” Peake said.

Peake’s exhibition runs from today until 10 January 2016. Entry is free and children aged 14 and under are not allowed in unaccompanied.