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This series of works shows a fascination with the alchemical nature of form, colour, and change. It considers glass’s primal development as a means to mimic precious gems, positioning it as a kind of faux stone. It traces a passage from the natural to the engineered—into the synthetic or super-real—before entropy returns it to its constituent, natural state.
It interrogates: “What would it be like to live in a world where material knowledge is a crucial part of our existence, or where a loss of this material knowledge has the power to catalyse a catastrophic loss of agency? This stands in stark contrast to our contemporary experience, where commodities are mass-produced and fungible in their repetitive sameness, while our minds are submerged in data smog—our own version of catatonic numbness.” (Sophia Nuske, responding to the body of work Speculative Future)
Images: Kevin Gordon
