Semiconductor: Worlds in the Making
Worlds in the Making is the first major UK solo exhibition by British artist duo Semiconductor: Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Semiconductor’s work explores the material nature of the world and how we experience it. Through their installations and moving image works they investigate the process and techniques science employs to systematise the material world, and examine how our experience of reality is shaped by these mechanisms.
By weaving together fictional and documentary elements, Semiconductor create works which blur the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Their works have a sculptural quality, as they manipulate the natural forms and structures through a combination of self-developed image and sound processes and techniques. Sound plays an important role as a physical material, becoming a tool to construct and introduce notions of time and motion to the seemingly fixed world around us.
In the body of work Worlds in the Making, Semiconductor explore the origin of matter in our physical world. They introduce new possibilities, producing a mythology or science fiction that questions how science mediates our experiences of the physical world and how notions of reality are constructed through the prism of digital technology.
Semiconductors previous work includes Animate Projects commission, Magnetic Movie. Worlds in the Making runs from 1 July until 11 September at FACT, Liverpool.