A duo show in Berlin with Madeleine Fenwick and Kane Cali in collaboration with AOA:87 and R Gallery : This body of work explores dichotomies: opposing forces, points and counterpoints, and the tension between binary structures that shape both technological and human systems. Black and white, positive and negative, signal and noise, text and language, the tangible and intangible — these dualities form the conceptual framework through which the work operates. The works seek a state of equilibrium between opposing forces, questioning whether balance is achievable or whether one force must inevitably dominate the other.
Materially, the works are constructed primarily in metal, chosen for its durability, conductivity, and historical association with industry, infrastructure, and warfare. Metal functions both as a physical medium and as a conceptual device: a conductor of energy, information, and force, but also a material that oxidises, corrodes, and records time through decay. Through this, the work situates itself between permanence and entropy — durability and decay.
The visual language of the work draws from technological and industrial source material: industrial components, semiconductor wafers, gold-plated circuits, system schematics, data architecture, and coded language embedded within supercomputing systems. These structures represent the hidden frameworks that increasingly organise contemporary life. The work asks: what are we feeding the system, and what, in turn, is the system producing and preserving?
The works also consider the fragility of civilisation and the relics it leaves behind. Like archaeological fragments or shards of shrapnel, information survives in partial forms — fragments from which we reconstruct the past and interpret the present in order to imagine the future. This process is not neutral; it is shaped by power, omission, and narrative control. History is rewritten, edited, and retold — some stories preserved, others excluded or forgotten.
Underlying the work is a tension between determinism and autonomy: between systems that structure behaviour and the individual’s capacity to resist or reshape those systems. This tension is mirrored in the broader relationship between natural forces and humanity’s persistent drive to reshape the world according to prevailing social, political, and economic ideologies.
Ultimately, the work exists in counterpoint: structure and chaos, control and collapse, permanence and erosion, information and absence. The central question is whether equilibrium between these forces is possible, or whether history, technology, and power inevitably push systems toward imbalance.
