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Meanwhile, another linchpin, Sarah Lucas, is in lower-key, experimental mode, truer to the movement's original punkish spirit, and it might prove just as illuminating.

Situation is a rough-and-ready space above Sadie Coles HQ, Lucas's dealer. Across the year, Lucas will curate four shows here, of new and old work, along with the odd item by an artist friend.

There are duff notes in this first show - a sculpture in which fried eggs and a chicken represent the female body pointlessly revisits earlier works, and a video by Lucas's partner Julian Simmons, in which he fondles fake breasts while being showered with confetti, is strangely dull.

But Lucas's new works confirm that she is back in form, fusing a twisted surrealist eroticism, feminist politics and a distinctly British ribaldry - Louise Bourgeois meets Viz. Nice Tits (2011) features concrete casts of thigh-high boots, above which dangles a metal grill cluttered with stuffed tights in the shape of breasts and occasionally phalluses. In MumMum (2012) the same bulbous forms infest a hanging egg chair.

With these sculptures, Lucas makes Emin and Hirst's recent work look tame and decorative.

Situation is well worth keeping an eye on.

Until May 19 (020 7493 8611, sadiecoles.com)

Sarah Lucas
Situation
4 New Burlington Place
W1