Monaiseer\u2019s solo show examines history through cycles, repetition and flows, while testing the unstable boundary between imagination and reality. The title references the current status of the Doomsday Clock and its measurement of humanity\u2019s proximity to catastrophe; notions of war, occupation and imperial power have long animated his practice, and here he considers how they recur across contexts and generations, altering borders, enemies and technologies while preserving familiar structures of domination.<\/p>\n
The exhibition comprises drawings, paintings, sculptures and textile works, as well as a video installation. Recurring motifs in these works are absorbed from literary fiction, popular storytelling and contemporary media. And dark humour runs through them; for Monaiseer it is a means of examining the performance of power and the fantasies through which conflict can be romanticised, rehearsed and projected.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, pixelated figures and fragmented grids evoke the digital mediation of contemporary warfare and our era of misinformation, in which information is increasingly manipulated and corrupted online. Monaiseer has previously engaged with the historical construction of conflict; in these works he considers how conflict reaches us through technology, through compressed images, screens, news feeds and endlessly circulating footage, producing realities that are experienced at a distance and often manipulated.<\/p>\n
To 1 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"