past exhibition continued ...

The exhibition features work from the 'parasystoles' series, which comes from this interest in codes but specifically the use of sequencing from hotel security systems to chaos theory. The paintings and drawings explore mutations and multiplication, taking two humble hotel keycards, each punched with a unique sequence of holes as the starting point. A humble proposal which takes these simple keys, which open the door into the curious world of the hotel room, and enlarges them thereby altering their scale but also sabotaging their purpose. Let loose, the sequences mutate and the simple dots bulge and grow, at establishing fragile linear links and at others bouncing into their boundaries and merging into a new bulbous form. The merry dance formed by their endless repetition and mutation, and the irregular but seemingly mathematical rhythms that they form, wink and yet sympathise with all those irregular and bumpy forms that Benoît Mandelbrot claimed in The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1977) could henceforth be approached "in a rigorous and vigorous quantitive fashion".

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