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Iconoclastic Nuclear Plastic

Admission: Free
Opening: 18.06.2023, 19:00
18.06.2023-16.09.2023

Wednesday-Saturday: 12:00-20:00,
or by appointment

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In a space between sculpture, design, speculative fiction and theories of deep time, the narratology of geological forms takes center stage. This is a realm where perpetual islands, volcanic remnants, future fossils, nuclear waste warnings, petro-clay devices, drilling machines, jet engines, flesh-like foaming glazes and plastic fluids merge to create a time-shifting, fragmentary index of undefined repeating forms.

Organic and artificial bodies here come together, generating terminologies that act as a connective tissue. Constructivist and brutalist geometries become structures to hold cavernous, sinuous, and porous entities that converge in short instances to shape bipolar elements of an expanding universe.

In this domain, where glitches and fragments are the norm, the single pieces containing the substance of a broader body of work as micro satellites spread and freeze on the walls. It is an active scenario where the blurred boundaries between the natural and the artificial coalesce in a constant state of flux.

Iconoclastic Nuclear Plastic, while exploring the possibilities of texture and glazes with ceramics and various other materials, its infrastructure navigates us through fictional archeologies, bringing together the agency of landscapes and the materiality of artifacts in sculptural and narrative gestures.

Iconoclastic Nuclear Plastic

Emre Hüner, Catastrotholus, detail, engobe, fired clay, 82 x 82 x 110 cm, 2012