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For the past ten years Swiss artist Raphael Hefti has been interfering with material processes, manipulating and transforming different substances to surprising effect. Coming from a technical background with a keen interest in how things are made and what things can do Hefti sets up pseudo scientific experiments which challenge industrial fabricators and ultimately divert objects from their original state. To date he has made steel as fragile as glass, lit up a mountain side and changed non reflective glass into coloured mirror. In a recent series of photograms, Lycopodium, 2011 he burnt the spores of the moss plant Lycopodium onto photographic paper creating remarkable images which evoke the enormity of the natural world. This is Hefti’s first solo show in the UK.