MATHIAS WESTBROOK

Original press release:

A black graph coils itself around a manufactured grid of mycelium. A pool of synthetic primordial fluid drips from metallic limbs. A slouched creature, of indiscernible shape, emerges from the deep. Its eyes sluggishly adapt to the dry, lush panorama, perceiving a handful of pixels at a time.

A timeline made flesh is a constructed microcosmos, portrayed and conveyed through a production of artifacts and beings, that are neither exponentially improving nor hierarchical. Machine-made materials and shapes form an interchangeable symbiosis with the organic and the living. A dialog with a man-made reality represented by gridlocked taxonomy, flat diagrams and a linear understanding of time. In its place, a world is conceived, inhabited by autonomous entities, wherein technology and biology become modular, abstract concepts. The timeline dissolves, becomes the fool. Liquids and solid structures. Vibrations between graphs on the z-axis.

The duo-show by Mathias Westbrook (stud. Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts) and Pernille Emilia Kjær (stud. Malmö Art Academy), seeks to create a collaborative reality across two individual artistic practices. Influences range from Cronenberg, Haraway and Lovecraft to various models within the history of technology. The exhibition came into being as a materialization of an ongoing dialogue, surrounding topics such as non-linearity, sci-fi, evolution and worldbuilding.