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Hiorns' transformation of a formerly domestic space into what could be described as a grand-scale petri dish is fascinating: it forces viewers to immerse themselves in a strangely tactile and fantastical world. In a similar way to Mark Rothko's large canvases describing nondescript doorways of colour lend their viewers an escape from their own consciousness, Hiorns' cobalt blue environment presents a suspension of reality, and the arresting colour with it's multifaceted surfaces means that there are a myriad of things viewers can see in the abstraction. Colour is immeasurably powerful, when we shut our eyes we do not escape it's hold, and indeed one of the effects of some drug usage is the increase of vividness in our minds.
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