Sound Vision Library presents, Tropism, an exhibition of works by Zissou
2 Dec 2022 – 2 Feb 2023

Tropism refers to the biological phenomenon of an organism being drawn towards an environmental stimulus, evidenced in how plants grow towards light. The exhibition explores the British artist Zissou’s fascination with natural pattern and form in the tropics in a meditation on the role light plays within image making and nature.

The series employs a range of imaging techniques from the printing press to photography and beyond in an homage to the botanists, chemists, mathematicians and artists whose curiosity has played such a pivotal role in the evolution of photography and image making today: from the 10th century Arab scholar and ‘father of modern optics’ Alhazen, to the British botanist Anna Atkins who pioneered the cyanotype process, the Polish mathematician Benoit Mandelebrot and his discovery of the geometry underpinning the fractals found in nature, to Jacques-Henri Lartigue’s experiments with stereoscopy and Man Ray’s visual adventures, all the way to the pioneers of modern computer graphics.

“If I manage, through my practice, to spark even one more person’s curiosity and appreciation of the extraordinary natural world in which we live, then today I have achieved.” - Zissou

Born in London, Zissou lived in San Francisco, Madrid and Melbourne before settling
in Bali, where his love of the natural world of the tropics exploded, inspiring him to build a simple bamboo home without walls hidden in the rainforests beyond Ubud.
Coming from a lineage of famous photographers, Zissou’s fascination with analogue and digital creativity has led him through a broad and storied career to date — he is a photographer, but still practices his other interests as a designer, technologist, regenerative living advocate and mentor.

Sound Vision Library is a gallery concept based in Bali that aims to share and connect our global and local community of artists , makers and creatives thinkers.