Gas
is a mixed-media installation by Callum Morton. A scale model of a contemporary
streamlined service station appears a clinical simulation of its referent
– until one notices that one of the pump guns is left on the ground,
spilling forth a huge pool of petrol. This dramatic tableaux accentuates
the ‘people-less’ domain of architectural models, and their
proto-zombie aura is something Callum has explored in much of his sculptural
models. From within the service station, muzak gently plays –
imbuing the scenario with a fatal irony as disaster is likely to occur
within this fictional world while the muzak plays on.
