Hazel Brill – Amber
Location
Workplace
50 Mortimer Street
London
W1W 7RP
Description
This exhibition has now closed
This exhibition runs from Thursday 11th April 2024 to Friday 24th May 2024.
Rooted in her research around prometheus narratives in gothic fiction and sci-fi, Hazel Brill's latest body of work combines an assortment of mechanical and organic materials taking inspiration from how biomimicry and biotechnology in architecture blurs the lines between living and non-living. The title references Brill's interest in the dual seduction and fear around transformative technologies, as amber lights can be both a warning and a calming, protective presence. Amber has further significance as the resin holds the non-living in stasis, not allowing organisms to decompose, leading to mythologies around it holding the essence of life. Brill uses microscopic images of ancient plant fragments and fossilised insects found inside amber in the designs of her sculptures as well as incorporating pine resin and amber in the materials.
Congregating in the centre of the gallery, alluding to a surreal laboratory gone awry, the works are created from internal mechanisms, such as simple rotating devices, lightbulbs and speakers, as well as strange prophetic dioramas. Modest in size yet intricate in their construction, they embody a sense of motion and agency, like tiny hybrid creatures that have emerged from other worlds.
Her most recent body of work sits between the grotesque and seductive, creepy and tender - expanding upon theuncanny presence of puppet theatre, clockwork animatronics and other forms of beings that navigate the line between living and dead. Bacteria features in the 'belly' of one of the sculptures, further alluding to histories of technology imbuing inanimate objects with life - a pygmalian and Frankenstein-like narrative which increasingly underpins storytelling around science and touches on the role of emotion in scientific research.
The sculptures embody an ominous presence and ambiguous sense of agency, acting both as protagonists and portals.Abstract narratives are weaved across the surface and material, appearing on metal, clay, glass, pine-resin, resin 3-d prints, as well as an imprinted on the wall-based works.
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This exhibition runs from Thursday 11th April 2024 to Friday 24th May 2024.
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Workplace
50 Mortimer Street
London
W1W 7RP
This exhibition runs from Thursday 11th April 2024 to Friday 24th May 2024.
This event runs over several days/weeks. Dates include:
April 2024
- Thu 11th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 12th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sat 13th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sun 14th Apr 2024
Closed - Mon 15th Apr 2024
Closed - Tue 16th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Wed 17th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Thu 18th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 19th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sat 20th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sun 21st Apr 2024
Closed - Mon 22nd Apr 2024
Closed - Tue 23rd Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Wed 24th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Thu 25th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 26th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sat 27th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sun 28th Apr 2024
Closed - Mon 29th Apr 2024
Closed - Tue 30th Apr 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm)
May 2024
- Wed 1st May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Thu 2nd May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 3rd May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sat 4th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sun 5th May 2024
Closed - Mon 6th May 2024
Closed - Tue 7th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Wed 8th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Thu 9th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 10th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sat 11th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sun 12th May 2024
Closed - Mon 13th May 2024
Closed - Tue 14th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Wed 15th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Thu 16th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 17th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sat 18th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Sun 19th May 2024
Closed - Mon 20th May 2024
Closed - Tue 21st May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Wed 22nd May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Thu 23rd May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm) - Fri 24th May 2024
(10:00am to 6:00pm)