Installation view Elemental Worlds, 2008
Photo: Eva Fernandez
Façade for Iceberg, 2008
acrylic, timber
620 x 330 x 120 cm
Photo: Eva Fernandez
Precious Alliance, 2008
chalk, acrylic paint
400 x 870 cm
Photo: Eva Fernandez
Cluster Lustre, 2008
acrylic, MDF panel, plaster, theatre lights, mixing table
33 x 50 x 0.3 cm
Mondo Grotto, 2008
circular projection with sound
dimensions variables
ELEMENTAL WORLDS
Combining a sense of global scale with a concentration on the minute Tom Mùller's Elemental Worlds confounds apparently commonsensical categories and disrupts the orderly ways we construct and understand our world.
Presenting counter intuitive notions such as 'man-made nature', 'artificial landscapes' and 'nostalgic ideas of nature', Mùller's work is both highly topical and richly poetic. Through cross-weaving our foundational logics and ideas, he suggestively explores the future of humanity and the earth by seeding questions within the very fabric and building blocks of our worldview.
Gentle, even humorous, and yet disturbing, his work anticipates the growing sense of foreboding that has begun to emerge in the public debate of climate change and the environmental sustainability of our current global system.
Melissa Keys
Curator, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts