The artist thus creates an exhibition situation, which — depending on the position and perspective of the viewer — opens new contexts and points of reference between the altogether seven works on view: through overlapping and juxtaposition,
fragmented image details of architectural constructions are transformed into new — rational and irrational — visual connections and associations.
Not exact matches
To study the mechanism's fine surface
details, they took multiple digital
images each lit from a different direction, which allowed them to virtually rotate the object in the light [see interactive
images here and a rotating view of the main
fragment here].
One feels the presence of the boy collector in one untitled work in which
detailed printed
images of bugs are placed side by side, together with a few other found
fragments and much empty space.
Morley depicts
details: each calibrated digital
image as a whole is
fragmented into a grid of small squares or «cells» as the artist calls them, from which Morley paints one discrete component at a time, turning the canvas upside down and sideways so that the abstract shape and color tonality of each part is addressed.