All images installation views Elemental Worlds, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2008.
Photos: Eva Fernandez & Tony Nathan
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
Elemental Worlds exhibition catalogue
with an essay by Rebecca Coates
published by the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
Review in The Australian
Ted Snell
29 December 2008
