Solo Exhibition at Atelier Villeneuve, Marseille, France
28.08 - 26.09.2024
For Sleeping with lights on, Ryder Morey-Weale presents a series of light sculptures surrounded by grafted plant works which combine various invasive species collected in and around Marseille.
Citing the heterotopic landscapes from which he collects his materials, Sleeping with lights on envisions the exhibition space at Atelier Villeneuve as a growing, invasive, and resilient ecotopia. A place where species collectively collide and hybridize under the auspices of artificial light. Insects settling on the lamps and plants growing from the sediments, anthropologically-tinted alloys become havens for new interfused synergies to arise.
The exhibition is accompanied by the poem 3 Hypotheses by Nina Hanz.