Mirka at Tolarno Hotel
Kit Wise presented a series of digital ‘paradise’ works. Impossibly picture perfect, these postcards are hauntingly familiar. Wise presented symmetrical Edens. Uncannily mirrored and fluid, his utopian visions endlessly ebbed and flowed. His mesmerising, yet impossible tides moved back and forth against perfectly balanced animations, each depicting an idealised place. The effect was weirdly disorienting. Across these eight screens, Wise explored the possibility of discovering arcadia within the digital age. He represented animated versions of popular seaside scapes. Wise carefully dissected each image before reassembling them en mass: part collage, part mash-up; infinitely layered, texturally and conceptually rich.
