Larger than life: Ron Mueck exhibition - in pictures

Ron Mueck's assistants carry his sculpture Drift, 2009 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Ron Mueck's assistants apply finishing touches to Drift, 2009 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Instead of floating in a swimming pool, Drift, 2009 is installed high on the gallery wall. Held up only by a puff of air and a sheet of plastic, the precariousness of Drift provokes questions about the brevity of life Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Drift, 2009 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Drift, 2009 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Woman with sticks, 2008 – a sturdy, middle-aged woman struggling to contain an unwieldy bundle of sticks nearly twice her size suggests a woman tackling the near-impossible tasks set in fairytales and legends Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Woman with sticks, 2008 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Youth, 2009 – a young boy pulls up his shirt to reveal an open stab wound in his side. Youth is a portrait of the thoughtlessness of childhood; of a person not yet grown up who comes face to face with the incomprehensibility of mortality Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Youth, 2009 Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

Still Life, 2009 – Mueck’s title directly references the genre of still life, a subject that has given rise to a variety of artistic explorations of the bounty of nature and its consumption Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian