Vera Möller

Image: Vera Möller, darkrooming, 2006, installation view, Courtesy of the artist and Philip Bacon Gallery, Brisbane. Photograph: John Brash

darkrooming

Exhibition dates: 12 to 20 October 2007
Opening: Saturday 13 October, 2-4pm

darkrooming has been constructed as a collection, as an archive of prototypes of hypothetical hybrid specimens that have been produced as an artistic response to the increasingly blurred boundaries between natural, artificial and illusory phenomena in the field of biology ('naturalia' and 'artificialia'). As an accumulation of visual materials, this installation has been developed to perform as an inventory representing a complex network of allusions to an array of subjects.

These include aspects of hybridity associated with the field of biology, specifically with hybridized, improved or otherwise altered bios and hypothetical life forms. Fantastical aspects of display in natural history museums and aquariums and the history of microscopy as a scopic regime have provided additional references.

At the same time darkrooming has been oriented towards spatial dynamics characteristic of micro-environments in fringing reefs. In such habitats, varieties of organisms and structures coalesce and concresce to form terraces, niches and projections. 

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