Small Language Models

Through a wide array of materials and techniques, Lennart Lahuis subjects visual information to natural processes such as oxidation, combustion, evaporation, and erosion. The artist juxtaposes these natural phenomena in each series with technological elements and scientific disciplines such as earth sciences and astronomy. In his objects and installations Lahuis departs from transience and entropy to explore the boundaries of intelligibility and the material conditions for readability.
“Small Language Models” brings together two bodies of work that ground the reproduction of information in natural processes and the body.