Seventeen Gallery, London

Meta-Mythical Optimisation depicts the world of Deemona, an ideal human society generated in a distant future by a synthetic Demiurg. The exhibition features eight video installations depicting isolated figures dressed in utilitarian fabrics, who are slowly performing subtle, considered movements. Each figure is situated in a static landscape filled with geometric architecture, arches, domes, a starved classicism most associated with past totalitarian regimes or utopian futures. The structure of the images alludes to the language of Renaissance painting, relocated to a post-work future, depicting a priest-class of technocrats. The precise gestures of these robed figures imply a meditative state, further underscored by a oneiric drone that rises and falls across the gallery’s rooms.