ASSETS is Alan Butler’s second solo exhibition since his debut here in 2017, and since then, his work has been the subject of over one hundred exhibitions at galleries, museums and festivals around the world.

His work is known for delving into the mechanisms of digital technologies and image production, and in recent years, both concepts and media have focused heavily on connecting physical materials and hand-made production processes to digital cloud technologies, ecology and simulated worlds.

The exhibition is typically interdisciplinary and features a collection of works which reflect the artist’s interest in 3D graphics, networked technologies and the mechanics of image production.

ASSETS, an umbrella term which refers to information or the objects in a database which are appropriated and transformed into new forms and assemblages.

ASSETS, in how they relate to Butler’s practice, are part of a logistical image-production pipeline and the works in which the show reflect the vast array of approaches to art production from the artist’s studio.

In Butler’s practice, ASSETS are not something that should be considered or fixed, but nodes on an undulating planetary network composed of data infrastructure, organic matter, dirt, decay and culture; all potential tools or media at play.