While working as a bouncer at a nightclub, the artist Anne Imhof taught herself how to make music and draw. The environment inspired her first production: a fight between two boxers at a red light district bar. From there, her practice—described as tableaux vivant or “living pictures”—took off. “I don’t really believe in great ideas,” Imhof told The Talks. “Instead, I always try to look at what comes my way, which are the accidents waiting to happen, and I build in chance.” The bodies she directs often look like ghosts, moving passively. These haunting examinations do not only happen on a stage. A new exhibition draws on Imhof’s past project “DOOM: House of Hope,” a performance art installation about Romeo and Juliet. Large-scale wave paintings, sculptures, and bronze reliefs translate a fleeting performance into enduring form. —Maggie Turner