Spring Projects presents Bermuda Triangle a four-person exhibition of newly commissioned works by some of the UK’s hottest emerging talents; set designer and illustrator Gary Card, artist Bruce Ingram, and a series of collaborative projects between photographer Jacob Sutton and set designer Hana Al-Sayed.

Taking its title from a region associated with paranormal experiences and unexplainable circumstances, the exhibition sets out to explore new territory combining artists with seemingly disparate backgrounds whose collective interest is to create an unexpected artistic experience, which defies familiar categorization. The artists’ works share a process-orientated approach, investigating notions of material transformation and visual experimentation.

Gary Card creates a dramatic entrance to the exhibition via a huge cave-like environment constructed out of white Plasticine, the interior walls consisting of individual naive face formations, is reminiscent of the Sedlec Ossuary (Kostnice), in Kutna Hora * with a comical twist. Stark artificial lighting illuminates the interior in contrasts to the works’ malleable surface, creating an experience which is both fantastical and edgy. Cards’ trademarks, his use of colour and texture, which employ an unbridled aesthetic that utilizes a combination of visual mediums and aesthetics, are some of the elements evident in this piece, which marks the beginning of a special series of unique custom made pieces for interior spaces.

Scattered throughout the 3,000 sq ft gallery space Bruce Ingram presents a series of pieces; rock-geode sculptures, suspended orbs and a gigantic tree-like sculpture. His intricately detailed, collaged pieces provide richly textured surfaces, combining ‘real’ and manufactured elements which make reference to a new age aesthetic that the artist uses in a tongue in cheek way. His works investigate themes of transformation and fakeness, comprising objects from everyday life, reorganized into otherworldly sculptural forms. His jewel-like objects are mixed with stark elements of household lighting and crudely applied physical texture which creates a tension between aesthetic values, nostalgic and futuristic elements, creating an uncomfortable edginess and material dynamism.

Jacob Sutton and Hana Al-Sayed present a film and collection of photographs which investigate the material metamorphosis of an object through the process of human intervention. Their images which capture apparently trivially constructed processes are translated in their photographs and film to moments of epic quality; Toppling oil drums full of milk and exploding balloons of powder act on bodies with very real force. Fast photographic exposures capture the structure within these explosive moments as simple materials abandon their static form to become something sublime. The subjects within the works are used to provoke a single action, which then in a domino-like effect create a chain reaction of unfolding events.