seizure

image: Seizure by Roger Hiorns was open July 23rd to Oct 18th 2008 at 151-189 Harper Road, London SE1.
In autumn 2008 a large scale chemical experiment took over a ground floor flat in London´s Elephant and Castle.
Effectively infesting the concrete structure with an organically grown bedazzlement, artist Roger Hiorns sealed off the walls of a bedsit in the housing block scheduled for demolition, then poured 90,000 litres of hot supersaturated copper sulphate solution through holes in ceiling from the flat above covered the walls of a bedsit in a housing block facing demolition. When the liquid was drained weeks later, all exposed surface area of the flat was revealed to be taken over by chrystal growths in a vibrant electric blue.

Link to photographs of the installation and the process involved at ICON magazine.
video of the installation