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12 October / 17 November 2024
ALICIA KING
Phenomenal Bodies
Phenomenal bodies presents a collection of new artworks driven by King’s fascination with natural phenomena. This exhibition features pieces that incorporate elemental and industrial materials, as well as natural forces of gravity and magnetism, to create intricate crystalline formations on aluminium panel. Additionally, it includes hand-drawn works where King has meticulously etched cosmological motifs into aluminium colour planes. Though abstract, these works have a direct relationship to the natural world through King's evocative use of surface, line, colour, and texture.
King’s practice explores the intersections of nature, technology and the sublime. Through an alchemical approach to materiality and process, her work uses diverse technologies to create novel representations of the natural environment.
Her artworks engage viewers through their tactile surfaces and textures, inviting them to contemplate their connection with larger unseen forces and complex ecologies, from which we have so much to discover.