"When the rising British artist Nat Faulkner was a young child, he used to order moths by mail. "You could send off for these caterpillars - cocoons and eggs. You'd hatch them, watch them go through these transformations, and then set them free." Speaking the morning after the opening of Strong Water, his new solo exhibition at Camden Art Centre, which awarded him the Emerging Artist Award at Frieze in 2024, Faulkner is musing on his enduring fascination with states of transformation."
""Oliver Sacks makes a great comment in his text Speed about wanting to be able to see plants move. Take a fern unfurling - no matter how long you look at it, you'll never see it change. But if you come back two days later, it will have changed drastically. I like that timescale, because it shows you there are things happening that you aren't able to watch, and that you can't measure somehow.""
Nat Faulkner investigates states of transformation through photography, photographic processes, and sculpture, exploring phenomena that occur on imperceptible timescales. He draws on observations of natural metamorphosis and literature on temporal perception to consider changes that cannot be continuously measured. Strong Water uses light-sensitive iodine solutions placed in bespoke vessels over a Victorian skylight to cast an oneiric orange hue that shifts with daylight, making temporal change tangible. The exhibition foregrounds metallic substances and their vitality across distances and state changes, and examines tensions between the seen and unseen and between control and uncontrollable processes.
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