Haunt

Haunt is an exhibition of sculptures and drawings in VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan. Haunt is a continuation of The Embassy of Doggerland and The Office of Arcana , and uses miniature spaces within an installation to examine a series of ideas, as well as playing with the ways in which scale is viewed within a narrative led installation, that is the ways perception and imagination intertwine to situate a viewer within a scaled-down interior. Both previous projects began with ideas leading from perceptions of abandoned and ruined buildings, a haunted landscape where structures could be the ruins of an unspecified future. The once derided literature of science fiction now seems to catch the present state with greater clarity than those who stated we were at the end of history (though in a way maybe we are). It is the sense of places that are not reduceable to a single narrative that offers explanation. The land is haunted by what might have been. The model architecture reflects memories of edge-lands; in the UK around the River Mersey towards the industrial centre of Widnes; and in Taiwan the coast around Taoyuan Airport. These sites are unfixed in time, seemingly as if ghosts from a future catastrophe.