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At times a landscape with porous boundaries, at other times an enigmatic dance of unusual figures, this universe unfolds in a swirl of eclectic objects, each as calmly understated as the next, which suddenly take flight as they encounter one another.

Looking at Serge Murphy’s work, there is a tendency to see oneself in it, to dredge up familiar forms from the murky water of his uncanny and dream-like concoctions. It is a natural human inclination to anthropomorphise that which is unfamiliar, at once allowing us to connect with novelty and take something away. Murphy’s work is interpretable at …