Louis Morlæ

The practice of the London-based visual artist Louis Morlæ operates at the intersection between two modes of creativity: that of industrial automation and manufacture, and that of character-driven narrative. The result is work which looks not to a distant and abstracted future, but to the furthest and most tantalising edges of what might be possible within the current moment. Seamlessly integrating video and sculpture, he uses game-engine rendered animation to bring his android-like figures-designed using CAD, and then 3D printed in component parts with PLA plastic, aluminium, steel and SLA resin- to life. His in-depth, multimedia worldbuilding explores our cultural and social engagement with tech, the metaverse, and the digital realm from a perspective on continuing technological advancement that is neither wholly utopian or dystopian.

Morlæ’s works share not only a distinctive visual sensibility, but an invented reality, in which identifiably of-the-moment signifiers like Balenciaga trainers brush up against science-fictional, lightly surrealist future technology.