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Seizure by Roger Hiorns.
Roger Hiorns uses unusual materials to effect surprising transformations on found objects and urban situations. Seizure is Hiorns' most ambitious work to date and marks a radical shift in scale and context in his work. Hiorns encouraged the growth of an unexpected crystal form within a building in south London. 75,000 litres of copper sulphate solution were pumped into the council flat to create a strangely beautiful and somewhat menacing crystalline growth on the walls, floor, ceiling and bath of this abandoned dwelling. "With Seizure, Hiorns expands on a central theme of his work, that of the thing that makes itself, an object that self-produces rather than is produced by the agency of the artist. Along with the various crystallised objects, Hiorns has previously made sculptures that produce columns of fine soap bubbles, seemingly endlessly and out of nothing. In parallel to these strictly chemical or physical processes, Hiorns has also made works that suggest various forms of biological production, often turning on metaphors of sexual and asexual reproduction as well as excretion. "What binds these distinct aspects of Hiorns's work is a preoccupation with the nature of the...
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