Langlands & Bell: the artists storming Silicon Valley's fortresses

With their eerily pristine models of Apple and Facebook's offices, Turner-nominated artist duo Langlands & Bell expose the 'fantasy of total control' that is Silicon Valley architecture

Eerie white forms appear to float off the walls of a gallery on Pall Mall, hovering in front of lurid blocks of colour like the preserved cadavers of some alien race displayed in a future museum of natural history. There are amoebic creatures with bulbous appendages, others with angular faceted shells; some seem to stare out with cyclopean eyes or gaping circular mouths.

Westminster's gilded avenue of gentlemen's clubs, where kings and earls once strode, is an appropriate place for what turns out to be a display of our modern-day vessels of power. These bleached bodies are the headquarters buildings of the world's biggest technology companies, as seen through the detached, deadpan eyes of artist duo Langlands & Bell.