Since the eighties, Perry has been using a medium associated with antiquity – ceramic vases – to reflect contemporary concerns. He himself notes he’s making stuff that’s seductive and covetable for rich people and yet substantial enough to go into museums. My favourites have always been the ones with tongue-in-cheek humour like in this show where he inscribes on a vase: 'Hi, this is my 7-hour-long multiscreen gallery-based video project about widening accessibility to visual art’. That’s him lampooning those artists that feel their endurance art holds any interest outside of a small circle of devoted art world enthusiasts. Or it might be him ribbing those left-wingers who are out of touch with the working class. Or could he be affectionately poking fun at his gallerist who has spaces in expensive areas with galleries that you need to book appointments to visit nowadays?

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As you enter the gallery you can’t help noticing the biggest piece: a tapestry  - Very Large Very Expensive Abstract Painting - that has lines representing the Manhattan subway system with Pollock squiggles along them. There are words like Modern slavery, zoning, and many others that reflect the cultural and economic forces that power the country. Manhattan is the centre of the art world and used to be the cultural epicentre, but it’s now an overpriced area and the work helps to depict the fact the major schism in the country is between the top ten per cent (many of whom live or work in Manhattan) and the rest of the country.