Dark Forest, Silver Moon brings together a new body of work by Ian Collings at The Future Perfect’s Los Angeles Goldwyn House. Collings’ fourth solo exhibition with the gallery explores how materials and forms shift under moonlight, revealing new possibilities within the familiar.
Representing a material pivot in Collings’ practice, the exhibition marks a return to wood and an ongoing conversation with trees. Rather than imposing form, Collings works in response to the intelligence of materials, the rhythms of natural processes, and the connections between body, landscape, and cosmos.
Carved root burls and tree cavities carry traces of compression and growth, while cast tin catches and scatters light. Sculptural forms take on the shifting geometry of darkness, while cabinets and lighting become vessels for illumination. Across the exhibition, silhouettes reveal unexpected shapes, narratives, and ways of seeing.
Collings considers shadow not as something to overcome, but as something that shapes perception. Like moonlight, the works draw attention to forms and details that brighter light can obscure, inviting a slower and more attentive encounter with the visible and unseen.
Through the glimmer of cast tin against wood grain, carved cavities, and forms emerging from darkness, Dark Forest, Silver Moon proposes another kind of clarity: one that unfolds gradually and finds possibility within the space between illumination and obscurity.
