Emma Webster’s solo exhibition, Vapors at Perrotin Hong Kong marks her debut within the metropolis and options 11 ethereal panorama work, created throughout the January wildfires in Los Angeles. By means of misty grays and delicate brushstrokes, her work explores themes of impending catastrophe and aftermath, mixing plein-air panorama, nonetheless life and digital actuality into a brand new creative style. The title attracts on the fleeting nature of vapor itself, symbolizing the transient qualities of change and the collision between the interior and outer worlds.
Webster’s creative course of merges conventional strategies with superior know-how, combining sculpture research, digital actuality and digital rendering. She begins by crafting wax and plaster objects, that are scanned and integrated into digital dioramas to create intricate compositions. Using instruments like Oculus and Blender, Webster tasks these digital designs onto canvases, difficult viewers to mirror on the blurred boundaries between actuality and fantasy.
In her work, Webster ceaselessly employs birds as symbolic figures frozen in unnatural postures, reflecting themes of isolation and displacement. Works like “Alaska” and “Sparrow” emphasize static poses, whereas “Odette” presents a fragmented swan beneath a dolmen. By integrating Romantic-era portraiture and the eerie dimensionality of 3D rendering, Webster offers these figures a legendary presence. Her terrains, typically digitally generated, distinction with manipulated bonsai shrubs tailored from scans, additional heightening the strain between nature and artificiality.
Concurrent with Vapors, Emma Webster will reveal “Hunter’s Backyard,” a large-scale panorama portray, on the gallery’s sales space at Artwork Basel Hong Kong. Vapors opens on March 25 and can stay on view till Might 17, 2025.
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