Lot 30

Alex McLeod orchestrates lush, algorithmically-rendered terrains where the natural and the simulated converge in an uncanny détente. Drawing fluently from the aesthetics of video games and digital vernaculars, his practice engages the latent poetics of 3D modeling to evoke cycles of decay, regeneration, and the mutable ontology of matter itself. These radiant, hyperreal tableaux do more than dazzle; they function as speculative ecologies—portals through which viewers might contemplate mortality, transformation, and the technologized lens through which contemporary subjectivity apprehends “nature.” McLeod’s work situates itself at the interstice of elegy and exuberance, rendering the digital sublime both tactile and transcendent.