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Chris Soal’s latest body of work, Surface Tension 2024, is a development of his practice of the transformation or metamorphoses of quotidian objects and materials. Soal is well known for his, almost compulsive, interest in how everyday objects and materials can be rendered into uncanny yet familiar forms. Soal’s work has always engaged in the process of what Viktor Shklovsky referred to as ‘defamiliarization’, of rendering the familiar and prosaic into the poetic. Toothpicks are metamorphosized into the gestures of fur and movement; bottlecaps into writhing serpentine forms. Soal engages in …