Simon Bustamente, Iain Dahlem, Rebecca Paladino : Automorph
Los Angeles Metropolitan Museum, Washington, USA

Simon Bustamente physically engages the surface of all the abstract works. There is an archaeology of visual elaboration of images and of people living and working with that; the art of Simon Bustamente emphasises an awareness of community; it's a sense of active seeking and scrutiny, but the images themselves are distorted in ways quite unlike those made through microscopes. That is the transformations and the invented narratives through thousands of repetitive images, that conveys a feeling of intimacy and serenity; the unique design of these works takes them beyond the realm of a cultural craft into sculpture and mixed media, beyond any simplistic categorization.