SEIZURE
Roger Hiorns

September -
November 2008
then
23 July 2009 -
3 January 2010

SEIZURE was the result of a vast chemical process precipitated by Roger Hiorns in 2008 in what was his most ambitious large-scale work to date and saw him shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2009.

75,000 litres of copper sulphate solution were pumped into a council flat to create a strangely beautiful and somewhat menacing crystalline growth on the walls, floor, ceiling and bath of an abandoned dwelling.

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JL: You use a wide range of different materials. What determines the choice of material in your work?

RH: The way that I approach making certain artworks is to have some kind of psychological position, a place that is grown from a certain ambiguity. You always have to think about materials in terms of being real things - you have to cut them off from what their real use is, to interfere in their world-ness. You have to start from this material basis, and understand yourself through the material - it gives you a means of detachment.

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