The Page Gallery

Deep State of Rapture is a two-person exhibition by Mat Collishaw and Mustafa Hulusi that explores the unfulfilling desire for visual stimulation and imagery addiction. The artists employ birds and grapes, which have been a common environmental subject since the ancient West, in their works by using trompe-l'oeil. The works look like a realistic representation of natural subjects, yet the context, meaning, and metaphors within the subjects are paradoxically rearranged and reconstructed to scrutinize contemporaneity. The artists employ birds and grapes, which have been a common environmental subject since the ancient West, in their works by using trompe-l'oeil.