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"Future Nature" stands as both requiem and genesis. The mode of display and artifice transform this collection of embryos, collapsing their past into a timeless, liminal, ambivalent space - where they are constantly on the verge of becoming... yet frozen in time. This is the paradox throughout: a fantasy future of Disney-world displays, of long-extinct creatures, or perhaps of those which never came into being. Captured in a state of grace, the images invite us to view and enter a contemplative mode - where colour and large scale render them both close-up yet distant, creating an allegorical world where death and immortality are present[ed] in living colour. Following "Still Life" (1998), "R-Block" (1999) and "Stuffed Histories" (2000), "Future Nature" is a further take on histories and narratives of science. Grimes challenges our assumptions about how we aestheticise nature - questioning how nature and scientific processes are made available for public consumption. By dealing with the stuff and matter of science in his practice, he invites us to reconsider the interfaces between art and science and creates a rich visual currency in this exchange. Video/Sound,
C-Prints and DiaSec, Light boxes.
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