Lauren Hall’s sculptures and installations examine travel, wonder and wilderness through proxies of touristic sites. Her exhibition Sail Fast Cloud-Shadows and Sunbeams imagines coloured sand, soap, and gold lighting panels as sites of natural phenomena. Humour is important in her work, and confusing irony with earnestness seems to be a central problem. She considers stereotypes, clichs, and accepted ideas of the outdoors through sunsets, mirages, and the northern lights. Approaching her work the way one would tackle the set of a school play, game show, or diorama, Hall offers a view that is mostly synthetic, half real, and quite far from the awe-inspiring sites she signals to.

Documentation: Allan Kosmajac