Screens folds out across the gallery space like several pages of the internet, a physical version of virtual or online infrastructure. Made from brass, the sculpture is a series of wireframes that represent the schematic designs for websites: layouts that are created to organise how a user finds and accesses information. At the joins of the brass rods, greenish verdigris has formed as the copper solder oxidises. James Oram uses this as a reminder of the materiality of our digital world – the minerals, precious metals and even energy required to support our many digital technologies. Screens reinforces the idea that every Google search or screen swipe has an impact on our environment. Server farms are constantly humming away, storing all the data that lives in the cloud – a term that implies weightlessness but in fact demands huge power consumption.

He Kapuka Oneone – A Handful of Soil (from August 2024)