Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller are internationally renowned for their immersive installations, involving film, objects and sound. Their elaborate environments draw the viewer into captivating fictional worlds.

This new exhibition spans the artists’ careers, with seven installations that have not previously been seen in the UK. In their early work The Dark Pool, 1995, viewers weave through a room piled high with books and mechanical devices, triggering strange fragments of sound as they move. In Opera for a Small Room, the artists use the transportative qualities of sound to dramatic effect. Laura Cumming (The Observer) has described the work as ‘Cardiff and Miller’s masterpiece.’

The Killing Machine, 2007, is a theatrical meditation on capital punishment, inspired by Franz Kafka’s In the Penal Colony. The artists’ latest work The House Of Books Has No Windows, 2008, from which the exhibition takes its title, is a silent architecture of words and stories based on a previously unrealised project.