Precomposed impressions (2026), Kings ARI.
29 January 2026–22 February 2026
Photographs by Christian Capurro.
Pipes under construction, erosion, graphs, and flooding. Earth moved and water moving. An unsteady camera. I’m looking for something I can hold onto, when I start to see familiar shapes.
An exhibition on the topic of scattered vision in reference to (a) my grandad’s analogue films of drainage structures and (b) my eye floaters
“The engravings resemble sprawling bark beetle galleries in dead and dying trees. Elsewhere, growths of pigments bloom like mould in an old Melbourne sharehouse—the kind that feels older than the lease, the housemates, and perhaps even the building itself. The faint construction drawings and letterings embedded throughout the works also point towards the role of human labour in the surfaces we encounter: like lines on the road; grids in city planning; or how algorithms draw from our collective presence like desire lines through grass. These visual analogues suggest a sense of vitality in every line and residue, each mark an index of an action.”