Visions in The Crucible (2021)
Salt as our skin which grows, tears, heals and transforms. It is the binding of the body, the bridge between preservation and corruption. Nikolai Azariah has been developing alchemical fiction centred on a landscape overwhelmed by salt. His crystalline sculptures created in the furnace intersect with the light of the projector, revealing a world for the audience to traverse.
Salt as our skin which grows, tears, heals and transforms. It is the binding of the body, the bridge between preservation and corruption. Nikolai Azariah has been developing alchemical fiction centred on a landscape overwhelmed by salt. His crystalline sculptures created in the furnace intersect with the light of the projector, revealing a world for the audience to traverse.
Nikolai Azariah is a Finnish-British video and installation artist whose practice delves into memory, place and poetry, navigating myth to make sense of the world. His recent work investigates salt as material and manifestation of poetic meaning. As a juncture of opposites and the essence of corporeality, salt is taken as both subject and framework for his practice. This is viewed through the lens of alchemy, a deeply material and profoundly spiritual practice, combining thoughts on the human soul with experimentation in the laboratory. Restructuring, possibility and transformation are inherent in the alchemical processes he uses to uncover salt’s hidden virtues.
July 2021
July 2021
Goldsmiths
Postgraduate Exhibition
MA Artists' Film
& Moving Image
15-20 July 2021
Small Pool
Laurie Grove Baths
6 Laurie Grove
London SE14 6NH
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