A series of paintings and sculpture comes together in this scene by Loke, an artist who has experience creating rooms with his collective Vertical Submarine. A connecting thread runs throughout the space, the infamous hexagonal carpet in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece of horror cinema, The Shining (1980). This motif, an image that has stayed with Loke throughout the years, is just one sign of an unsettling atmosphere.

In Unarmed Chair, we see a wing backed leather chair shot with bullet holes and graffitied – including the lyrics of the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life” which speaks about the sadness and terror in the daily news. This chair was shot during Diwali so the guns would sound like fireworks, and references lunacy, excess and destruction.

Elsewhere, there appears to be only one shoe on the floor, with no sign of the owner, or its matched pair. The dead body lying in Loke’s painting The Body of an Art Dealer, and the bloody footprints found by the pool in Blue of Noon continue to invoke a ‘whodunnit’ feeling. Literature remains a big influence, with Blue of Noon named after Georges Bataille’s French erotic thriller written during the rise of fascism and published in 1946. The detective novel The Investigation (1994) by Juan Jose Saer also fuels Loke’s Living Room series of murder mystery paintings.