Victor Lim Seaward
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Midnight Oil is an installation that explores themes of transience and by positing an alternative future or past, analyses the impact of technology on the world. The neon light moon-circle evokes a possible location of the scene: an eerie swamp with uncanny presences, a diorama made of highly symbolic elements. The immobile white greyhound stands like a statue, reminiscent of a ghost, and mangrove roots tower out of the stagnating water. A goldfinch materialised its name, turning itself into a beautifully delicate sculpture that has laid in its nest a piece of raw silica, a precious mineral utilised in very technology that rules our daily lives. The Roman head sculpture, once meticulously carved out of stone and now 3D printed, reflects the debasement of art and the detachment from its historical essence. Questioning the historical memory of objects, some elements appear imbued with historicity whilst others are exquisitely contemporary. The vitrines with sterile LED lights create a contrast between ancestral familiarity and modern ubiquity.
Through the inclusion of utilitarian materials and high-tech manufactured components and objects of historical significance in the installation Seaward explores the theme of impermanence. In the exhibition the omen of environmental collapse at the end of cosmologies is redeemed by the sheer beauty of the natural elements that compose the installation.
Midnight Oil is an installation that explores themes of transience and by positing an alternative future or past, analyses the impact of technology on the world. The neon light moon-circle evokes a possible location of the scene: an eerie swamp with uncanny presences, a diorama made of highly symbolic elements. The immobile white greyhound stands like a statue, reminiscent of a ghost, and mangrove roots tower out of the stagnating water. A goldfinch materialised its name, turning itself into a beautifully delicate sculpture that has laid in its nest a piece of raw silica, a precious mineral utilised in very technology that rules our daily lives. The Roman head sculpture, once meticulously carved out of stone and now 3D printed, reflects the debasement of art and the detachment from its historical essence. Questioning the historical memory of objects, some elements appear imbued with historicity whilst others are exquisitely contemporary. The vitrines with sterile LED lights create a contrast between ancestral familiarity and modern ubiquity.
Through the inclusion of utilitarian materials and high-tech manufactured components and objects of historical significance in the installation Seaward explores the theme of impermanence. In the exhibition the omen of environmental collapse at the end of cosmologies is redeemed by the sheer beauty of the natural elements that compose the installation.
Exhibitions
Midnight Oil, Brooke Benington, Fitzrovia, London, UK (2023)
