OVEREXPOSED presents a new perspective of works familiar to those who have followed Kirralee Robinson’s practice. The photographic renderings of her three-dimensional solar works deftly capture and redirect sunlight into an energy that transcends the still images.
Basin-and box-like forms are coated in mottled charcoal, like the hardening crusts of magma surrounding lava pools. The inner walls of the forms catch the light through linings in gold, silver and copper leaf. Manipulating light as a material itself, the works disrupt linear sunbeams into diffused arcs and pull puddles of light into their own shadows.
The forms appear more potent than ever against a stark white field, as if having absorbed all that they can from their environment to leave nothing but a void around them. The pieces in isolation of their visual context, glow almost supernaturally, humming with a vibrant otherworldly potential. All scale is lost, resulting in the images appearing simultaneously like architectural mockups of huge glowing chambers, or up-close isolations of sci-fi-esque machinery parts or adornments. Kirralee reimagines sunlight as an art material, encouraging us to consider the world around us as an infinite resource for energy, beauty, and play - Soph Gibson, emerging artist and arts writer.
