The Immortal Mortals, 2022
Staged inside the artist’s studio, The Immortal Mortals is a suite of small platinum prints that feel both intimate and archaeological. A small theatre was constructed with deliberate simplicity, using drawings from the Immortal Mortals series as a backdrop. Against this shadowed terrain, lone figures appear in early twentieth-century breastplates, neither quite armour nor costume, but something ceremonial and strange.
The plates evoke early modernist theatre, or the beginnings of science fiction imagination, part prosthetic, part shell. Their wearers seem paused in time, fragile and alert. Not warriors, but perhaps something older or newer: witnesses, dreamers, survivors. Are they viewers from a previous age, or artists themselves, caught in a final act of contemplation?
What remains is a question. Are we witnessing a farewell to a familiar idea of Homo sapiens, our Stone Age biology and analogue dreams? Or are we seeing the first outlines of something else, a presence shaped less by dominance than by attention? These figures do not dramatise their condition. They stand. They watch. They endure.
