The images in this exhibition comprise a selection of collage prints from a series created by the artist since 2021, reflecting the sharp turn over the past few years into an uncanny reality in which the principal purpose of humanity seemed to become the management of an endless series of disasters. In a tumbling series of political, environmental and viral catastrophes, daily life began to resemble dystopian science fiction stories and disaster movies. After decades of fictional prediction and political procrastination, the fragility of our environment and civilisation became suddenly, shockingly transparent, everywhere at once. At the same time, the atomisation and confinement of this period bore a resemblance to time loop science fiction stories in which past, present, and future become indistinguishable, and characters are obliged to live out the same passage of time again and again in an increasingly unhinged repetition. The teeming human landscape of the city emptied out and ordinary social interactions were suspended, an experience at once eerie and sublime. The collages in this exhibition summon up the instability of the present we have landed ourselves in. Are these exploding skies, viral landscapes, levitating sculptures and foreboding architectural zones ruins of the past or visions the future?

Suggested Reading List:

The Drowned World, J.G. Ballard, 1962.

The Colour Out of Space, H.P. Lovecraft, Penguin Classics Science Fiction edition, 2020.

Robot, Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, abridged English translation, Penguin Classics Science Fiction ed, 2021.

Ice, Anna Kavan, 1967.

The Town, Shaun Prescott, 2017