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Non-stop nightmare: Disturbing show weighs the impact of a 24/7 world

24/7 at Somerset House in London challenges the profound effects of an always-on culture, while a book about the importance of rest shows how relaxing stacks up with well-being

By Shaoni Bhattacharya

13 November 2019

slogans — Douglas Coupland’s Slogans for the 21st century
© Stephen Chung for Somerset House

Somerset House, London, until 23 February 2020

Claudia Hammond

Canongate

IN THE darkened entrance, an array of blinding lamps switches on and off, and from a video wall projection you can hear a remote-controlled helicopter hovering noisily above the head of a sleeping artist covered in blankets.

Walking past this work – Bett by Roman Signer – you come to a room behind black curtains. In the darkness,…

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