Solo show at Heart Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh.
Also exhibited at OXO Tower Wharf Barge House, South Bank, London.
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This intricate installation entirely made of salt is combined with subtle movement and sound of the ‘sing’ of a wineglass. The work is concentrated to the centre of the space and spreads up and outwards allowing the viewer to walk around the space and amongst the light which hovers in front of and above them.
Biosmos NaCl is an illusionary manipulation of the space that involves the viewer in a physical and sensory experience. One is left to meander amongst intriguing specks of light that seem to explode and energise the space. The work appears to defy gravity in its weightlessness and ethereal beauty, appearing to escape from a galaxy-like hole in the floor. It hovers like a lingering cloud, each single entity swaying in meditative harmony with the next. Sound seems to resonate from their collective motion and seep inside the head. The mind wonders whether these are tricks of the eye and ear in the play of darkness. Colour appears to shift and change as one attempts to distinguish it as being either green or blue- a mysterious colour, a ghostly glow. One wonders whether this is deep space, deep sea or a figment of the imagination. The work momentarily distorts the perceptions of space and time, leading the senses on a hallucinatory journey. It recalls the sublime and physics of energies, forces and motion at play. Its cosmic presence delivers a sci-fi aura and we are left only to contemplate our everyday human existence amongst such things as the infinite stars and microorganisms in the new age of scientific engineering.