Angela de la Cruz's deadly art goes on show

Self (1997) In this work – half painting, half sculpture – a painted canvas crams itself into a seat to stare at another painting hanging on the wall opposite Photograph: Ione Saizar Photograph: guardian.co.uk Self Flat Ashame Crumpled and distorted, the seated canvas invites us to see paintings in different ways – as both objects and beings Photograph: Ione Saizar Photograph: guardian.co.uk Ready to Wear (1999) The ripped, wrecked nature of the canvases seem to embody the precarious nature of art Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery, London Photograph: guardian.co.uk Nothing (1998) A finished work? Or just nothing, as its title suggests? Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery, London Photograph: guardian.co.uk Still Life (Table) 2000 De la Cruz sometimes incorporates old furniture into her works, as in this sculpture combining a lumpy canvas with an old studio table, its legs sticking out at angles Photograph: Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery, London Photograph: guardian.co.uk Homeless This huge, dirty-white monochrome seems to come as a retort to whiter-than-white paintings by artists such as Kazimir Malevich, Piero Manzoni and Robert Ryman Photograph: Ione Saizar Photograph: guardian.co.uk Superclutter 'When I first knew her,' writes Adrian Searle , 'De la Cruz worked in a studio so small and cluttered, it was hard to tell where her work began and ended' Photograph: Ione Saizar Photograph: guardian.co.uk Flat Stuck In this, one of the most recent works in the exhibition, a waiting-room chair sprawls on the floor, as if having collapsed under someone's weight Photograph: Ione Saizar Photograph: guardian.co.uk Hung Another new work, a white rectangle with dark border, seems to 'stare back at you like a face, another self', says Searle Photograph: Ione Saizar Photograph: guardian.co.uk Stuck Sometimes folded, sometimes sagging or sprawling, De la Cruz's works have been described as a retort to the talk of death that grips the art world every now and then. See these, and more, at the Camden Arts Centre in London until 30 May 2010 Photograph: Ione Saizar Photograph: guardian.co.uk