rhythm without end
Rhythm Without End, 2021 Design Museum Helsinki. Gelatin silver prints (photograms). Aino Aalto, Bolgeblick, 1932, pressed glass, Manufacturer: Iittala. An Index of Infinite Rotation, 2019-20, images used with permission from Design Museum Helsinki’s image archive, alongside the artist’s photographs of material in the archive and collection. Photos: Paavo Lehtonen









mobile composition (ii)
Mobile Composition, 2020, curated by Andrew Renton for New Viewings #27, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin





eclipse sequence (diagram)
eclipse sequence
mobile composition (i)
Mobile Composition, 2017-18, Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-guyonne, with Association Alvar Aalto en France. Aniline goatskin quilts, installed and documented to replicate archival photographs depicting eighteen paintings which formed one installation amidst a constant flow of paintings in and out of the house (in a particularly well-documented moment in 1962), within the Alvar Aalto-designed house of Louis Carré, the Paris art dealer for whom the house was built. Photos: Lucy Dawkins
archival impulse
deux lumières
Deux Lumières, 2017. HD video, 7’19. Filmed at Maison Louis Carré, Bazoches-sur-Guyonne with permission from Association Alvar Aalto en France

exterior a
Exterior A, 2016. HD video, 6’28. Filmed at Maison Louis Carré, with permission from Association Alvar Aalto en France. Published by the Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform, Issue 1: Sites of Research http://www.oarplatform.com/the-surface-as-site-exterior-a/

a vase rests on a table
xyz
a sudden extinction of light
A Sudden Extinction of Light, 2014. silkscreen on goatskin, acrylic, galvanised steel. Photos: Sam Drake
A Sudden Extinction of Light is a drawing together of the nineteenth-century photographic iconography of hysteria and extended research into Alvar Aalto following identification of Aalto furnishings in the archives of the Freud Museum, London. The work’s title is taken from an image caption in Freud’s mentor, Jean-Martin Charcot’s staging and documentation of hysteria. The image illustrates how a hysteric woman might be induced into a cataleptic or lethargic state via a bright light.
The silkscreens depict five of Aalto’s iconic lighting designs; A110 (Hand Grenade), A881 (Snow Bell), A338 (Bilberry), A805 (Angel Wing), A331 (Beehive); and are an attempt to collide these abstract designs and their colloquial names with the materiality of goat – an animal known for its sharp peripheral vision and erratic behaviour. The surface texture of the aniline leather goatskin on which they are printed makes the lights appear to also be made of leather, bringing the designs into contact with the black fields they inhabit.



tavern with pendant A110
Tavern with Pendant A110, 2014. HD video loop. Filmed at Studio Aalto with the permission of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, Helsinki


studio a (from a stool 60)
Studio A (from a Stool 60), 2014. HD video, 10’26. Filmed at Studio Aalto with permission of the Alvar Aalto Foundation, Helsinki
