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21 May to 19 July 2014
Exhibition
SUBNATURE explores the use of fish bones and their imagery to evolve alternate visuals, looking at reproducing nature through sculpture and technology.
The fantastical works by emerging artist Lan Lan (果冻影院 Slade School of Fine Art), take the form of cosmic bodies through the manipulation of original fish bone sculptures, with some installations imagining a fictional future where energy plants rely on the phantom creatures.
ALTED Hydrozoa, Lan Lan, (2014).听A series of 11 C-Prints.听Photos of Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered听and transformed into virtual creatures.
ALTED Hydrozoa, Lan Lan, (2014).听A series of 11 C-Prints.听Photos of Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered听and transformed into virtual creatures.
ALTED Hydrozoa, Lan Lan, (2014).听A series of 11 C-Prints.听Photos of Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered听and transformed into virtual creatures.
ALTED Hydrozoa, Lan Lan, (2014).听A series of 11 C-Prints.听Photos of Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered听and transformed into virtual creatures.
Aftermath.听Lan Lan, (2014).听Installation The Lava Project,听Polystyrene balls, nail polish, acetone, bugle beads, carpet grass,听green poster sheet, spray paint, Perspex, vinyl print. Close-up views of听polystyrene models part of The Lava Project听covered in corrosive nail polish.听
Mod Fish. Lan Lan, (2014).听Fish bones (sea bass), adhesive.听The original sculptures from ALTED 鈥� Hydrozoa before being听scanned and digitally remodelled as photographic prints.
Set amongst the Museum鈥檚 historic collections of skeletons, skulls and specimens in jars, the exhibition establishes a dialogue between natural history and its contemporary interventions 鈥� intertwining a Victorian collection with 21st Century digital techniques.
Lan Lan installing听The Lava Project听 @ Olympic Highway.听
ALTED 鈥� Hydrozoa.听A series of 11 C-Prints of听Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered and transformed into virtual creatures.听
.RAW 听thumbnail fragments of scans听of听bone sculpture听installed in the Micrarium.
ALTED 鈥� Hydrozoa.听A series of 11 C-Prints of听Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered and transformed into virtual creatures.听
Museum Manager, Jack Ashby, installing听础蹿迟别谤尘补迟丑.听
ALTED 鈥� Hydrozoa.听A series of 11 C-Prints of听Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered and transformed into virtual creatures.听
Mod Fish sculptures installed around the Museum displays.听
HoloStack X-Capture turns 3D scans of a bone sculpture into holographic skeletons.听
ALTED 鈥� Hydrozoa.听A series of 11 C-Prints of听Mod Fish sculptures digitally altered and transformed into virtual creatures.听
SUBNATURE begins with ALTED 鈥� Hydrozoa, a set of听 photographs of sea bass bone sculptures (Mod Fish) digitally altered into fantasised creations that appear to be both cosmic forms and marine animals.
Composing the figurative relationship between consumerist technology and sublime landscapes, The Lava Project @ Olympic Highway imagines a fictional solar energy plant that uses images of virtual creatures. Aftermath simulates a film set narrated as a spin-off from The Lava Project. It produces a panoramic view of a landscape in destruction by collaging macro-shots of partially melted polystyrene balls in nail polish.
听Hybrids, Us Don鈥檛 Matter and Mercury, Black explore the appropriation of materials from manufactured nature, while HoloStack X-Capture turns 3D scans of a bone sculpture into holographic skeletons. In .RAW thumbnail fragments of scans seek shelter at the Micrarium as they were decrypted by the scanning software which rewrites the anatomical structures in its own language.听
