Heat Seeking

SET 91 presents Heat Seeking, the inaugural exhibition of our second six-month curated programme. Bringing together new works by Millie Earthy, Joe Garcia, and Francisco Zhan, the show explores printing techniques as processes of transformation, reproduction, and desire.

About the exhibition
Heat Seeking is a group exhibition exploring printing techniques as processes of slippery reproduction and desire. Using a variety of methods including 3D printing, paper clay, decals and UV printing, the exhibition brings together works shaped by slow, almost devotional processes requiring precision, alongside playful and often humorous exchanges between image and material.

Fundamentally, it is a show about desire, attending to its different forms: commodification and branding, transubstantiation in Chinese joss paper traditions, the politics of excess, texture, and the buffoonery of rebranding and repurposing industrial materials with personal imagery.

The pairings inhabit their own kind of poetry as images are forged with light, heat and exposure onto unexpected surfaces, producing fragile, mutable containers. Heat Seeking understands printing as a process shaped as much by risk as control, where material and image meet in unstable and often surprising ways.