Spread across Michael Lett and Gus Fisher Gallery and showing until 22 October is Creation Stories, a sprawling behemoth of a work from artist/academic duo Simon Denny and Karamia Müller.
is perhaps most interested in the world as one space, with a mind to exploring our built-sense of this oneness through generative metaphor. Perhaps as generative metaphors go nothing speaks with such imagistic profundity as the moment astronauts turned a camera-eye back on the globe, fleshing out a unified planetary mis-enscène that was previously unfathomable—one that is yet to find a functioning equivalence in practicable geopolitics. Despite the unifying impact of this moment, a singular shared order of humanity was not the result, and at this point globalised harmony remains just an ideal. But the takeaway from this should be the creation of photographic realism, an establishing of visual hegemony on what is and isn't reality. In one totalising image our sense of the world and its consummate ground was irrevocably, despite that word's latent plurality as it applies to universal-subsets. As a metaphor it is that grand signifier, not available locally but conceptually deterministic and unequivocal. Like water to fish it is the kind of metaphorical ‘stuff' so pervasive as to be invisible (insert proverb about not seeing forests for trees). This kind of worlding, or the act of fantastically enclosing histories and actors in a single envelope, is the fraught preoccupation of artists Denny and Müller in a show that is equal parts elegant and confounding (in a good way).
