VERTICAL VOLUMES (2020)
Neon, transformers, marble chips, copper | dimensions variable | Moore Contemporary, Perth | Photo: the artist

Tom Mùller's site-specific installation for MOORE CONTEMPORARY runs until 12th March. Repeated neon tubes projecting upward from mounds of marble chip command the space. Their soft hue - between ivory and blush - infuses the gallery with warm energy. Their structural and architectural dominance is countered by more elusive metaphysical or environmental evocations: lighting rods, earth or salt mounds, burial mounds, forces of nature, climate change... A singular copper staff glows with its own inherent properties and is poised and grounded through the gravity of its weight. A kind of luminescence juxtaposed with incandescence.

Complementing the installation are select works on paper.