Bright Dynasty is about an ever expanding sense of being at home on different scales, spectrums and frequencies, within the universe, landscape, architectures and dwellings, with other people, ecologies, within oneself and beyond. An ongoing enquiry examining the fabric and spirit of life within organic and geometric motifs and arrangements, seeking to extend our awareness of the movement between internal and exterior planes: spatial, poetic, perceptual and metaphorical dimensions echoing across works in sculpture, painting, film, dance, and text. Each personifying the essential qualities and changing states of selfhood.
Bright Dynasty (2022). Performance series. Tropic of Sagittarius (2022) detail, Carcharodon Carcharias Wave I and II (2021). Dimensions slightly variable (each work the mass of the artists palms). Glazed ceramic earthenware. Shown here at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Bright Dynasty (2022). Performance series. Course (2022) detail. Shown here at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
A series of paintings from 2021 diarise the development of the artist’s nebulous and exacting somatic choreographic process and his embodied encounters dancing within the installation works. These paintings articulate and map physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual states that journey through, and find home within, the body. Completing one another, this series is a chart of choreographic investigations, concrete devices that Adam uses to navigate and move through Bright Dynasty.
Paintings L-R: Rush, Jolt, Fire, Untitled I, Untitled II (2021), acrylic and charcoal on Fabriano paper, 29.7 x 42 cm. Arena (2022), acrylic on nylon. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Earth body is round (in) finite sunrise I (2022). Circumference 393 cm diameter 125 cm depth 41 cm. Hand bound bamboo, twine; acrylic on woven nylon. Paintings L-R: Angelos, Crysztal, Cellule, Rest, Fourb, Boldersoft, Shoal III, Scapularia (2021), acrylic and charcoal on Fabriano paper, 29.7 x 42 cm. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
A pair of assembled sculptural works, Tropic of Taurus and Tropic of Sagittarius (2022), bind together and suspend terrestrial and marine formations in varying compositions and scales, totems expressive of the multiplicities within ecological, geological, architectural, and historical origins and identities referencing the artist’s English and Saint Lucian heritage, drawing influence from the history of the Saint Lucian flag, astronomy, and astrology.
Tropic of Taurus (2022). Dimensions variable. Maximum height at apex 3.27m (4 x 4 x 4 m). Hand bound bamboo, jute rope; amethyst, rose quartz and red jasper fastened with Māori rock wrap with single strand twisted jute; desert branch, Wonder Valley, CA. Earth body is round (in) finite sunrise III (2022). Circumference 368 cm diameter 117 cm depth 41 cm. Hand bound bamboo, twine; acrylic on woven nylon. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
A series of round hanging sculptures Earth body is round in finite sunrise I, II, and III (2022) explore life and death, time, location, orientation, and distance. Cycles and revolutions; lunation; floating; orbits, eclipses, shade and shadow form layers in Adam’s somatic embodied choreographic process dancing in Bright Dynasty.
Earth Body is round (in) finite sunrise II (2022) detail, Rockslide (2022) detail. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Infinite Sunset I-V (2022). Graphite and watercolour on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm. Hand bound bamboo, Forest Gate, UK, jute rope. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
The Infinite sunset series of graphite and watercolour paintings (2022) explore truth, perspective, refraction, and tessellation taking in and connecting works across the exhibition in film, sculpture and dance. These notions also form a layer in Adam’s somatic embodied choreographic process dancing in Bright Dynasty.
Infinite sunset series (2022). Graphite and watercolour on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm.
Infinite Sunset I-V (2022). Graphite and watercolour on paper, 29.7 x 42 cm. Hand bound bamboo, Forest Gate, UK, jute rope. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
A quartet of silent single channel films Blaze, Course, Drift, Rockslide (2022) contemplate the substance and transitions of elemental forces. Projected onto the walls these films give pause within the installation works to reflect on our relationship with elemental forces. Where do we find these in our lives, what do their symbolic, experiential, and familiar states communicate to us? How we might transition between embodiments of these forces forms a layer in Adam’s somatic embodied choreographic process dancing in Bright Dynasty.
Rockslide (2022), single channel colour film. 16 minutes 49 seconds. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Drift (2022), single channel colour film. 8 minutes 10 seconds. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Rockslide (2022), single channel colour film. 16 minutes 49 seconds. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
A collection of unique glazed earthenware ceramics, Carcharadon Carcharias I-VII (2021) render a familiar motif allegorical and enigmatic through repetition, material meditations focussed on the mysteries below the surface of the sea and beneath the level of human and ecological consciousness. Repetition and reappearance, mystery, and allegory form a layer in Adam’s somatic embodied choreographic process dancing in Bright Dynasty.
Carcharodon Carcharias I-V (2021). Glazed earthenware. Dimensions slightly variable (each work the mass of the artists palms); Joshua Tree seed pod, Joshua Tree, CA; Granite, Joshua Tree, CA; jute rope; Autoproegrettazione Enzo Mari design (2021) hand sanded hand-made timber shelving unit 199 x 110 x 30 cm. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Through the polysemous and associative nature of these accumulating collections of works Moore weaves a poetic scrutiny of material and colonial histories parallel to formalist interrogations of minimalism, abstraction, and Arte Povera.
Tropic of Sagittarius (2022). Dimensions variable. Height at apex 1.63m (2 x 2 x 2 m). Hand bound bamboo, jute rope; silver bowl, blue green algae lake water, Epping Forest U.K., minerals, rocks; pendant shells, Dungeness U.K., twine. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Searching within the accumulation of recurring motifs and their relations, Moore sharpens his awareness to the familiar and the unknown, dancing in the space created by the different forms and compositions. The materials and processes at play become transformational allies through a series of performances interweaving dance with the installation design. Each performance retunes the exhibition, creating new vistas and relationships between works, artist, and audience.
Bright Dynasty (2022). Performance series. Shown here at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Bright Dynasty (2022), performance. Earth Body is round (in) finite sunrise II (2022) detail, Rockslide (2022) detail. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Drift (2022), single channel colour film. 8 minutes 10 seconds. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Bright Dynasty (2022). Performance series. Shown here at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
The multi-media installation, designed as a sanctuary for intimately examining materials, forms, and processes of transformation seeks to expand our awareness of the multitude of mutable relations which create the structures in the world around us, shaping our identities, and our internal worlds.
Bright Dynasty (2022). Performance series. Shown here at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Rockslide (2022), single channel colour film. 16 minutes 49 seconds. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Bright Dynasty (2022). Performance series. Shown here at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Carcharodon Carcharias Wave I (2021). Dimensions slightly variable (each work the mass of the artists palms). Glazed ceramic earthenware. Shown here installed at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
Bright Dynasty (2022). Performance series. Rockslide (2022) detail. Shown here at Phoenix Art Space June 2022.
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Performance photography by Phoebe Wingrove and Jenni Lewin-Turner
Exhibition photographs by Bernard G Mills, Jenni Lewin-Turner, and Adam Moore.
Special thanks to
Lucy Day
Belinda Greenlagh
Kitty Bew
Jade Downer
Ainoa Burgos
and the front of house team at Phoenix
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