‘The artist encouraged the growth of an unexpected crystal form within a derelict development near the Elephant & Castle in south London. 75,000 litres of copper sulphate solution were pumped into the council flat to create a strangely beautiful and somewhat menacing crystalline growth on the walls, floor, ceiling and bath of this abandoned dwelling. After the project opened, hundreds of people made their way across the capital to this anonymous council flat near the Elephant & Castle.’
‘For his Aspen Art Museum exhibition, Hiorns created a new group of works exploring transparency as a sculptural property. The works combined incredibly thin, ballistics-grade transparent plastic with nearly invisible bits of brain matter from cows. While transparency suggests a membrane, a physical mediating layer, the brain alludes to cognition and control, and therefore becomes a perceptual, immaterial intermediary. As in much of Hiorns’s work, the sculptures become material expressions of anxiety, as the cold rationality of industrial production is held in uneasy balance with the unpredictability of natural processes.’
