Solarium
Plicnik Space Initiative•Sep 18, 2026 — Nov 07, 2026
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In a speculative scenario that complicates the promise of neoclassical virtue and technological utopia, Solarium marks Amélie Mckee’s debut solo exhibition at Plicnik Space Initiative in London. Curated by Kollektiv Collective, the exhibition brings together sculptures, found objects and spatial interventions in a site-specific, immersive installation. Staging how value, form and function change in relation to power over time, the exhibition challenges our relationship to the idea of progress.
Through material manipulations, Solarium considers how aesthetic frameworks galvanise forms of authority: from homogeneous culture to governmental bodies to art institutions. Marble, a signifier of wealth, is rendered as a soft-textured carpet, its individual sections misaligning into what looks like hazard warning stripes. Central to the exhibition space, two sculptural columns reference neoclassical architecture, commonly present in governmental buildings and museums to transmit authority.…
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Solarium
Plicnik Space Initiative•Sep 18, 2026 — Nov 07, 2026
Press Release
In a speculative scenario that complicates the promise of neoclassical virtue and technological utopia, Solarium marks Amélie Mckee’s debut solo exhibition at Plicnik Space Initiative in London. Curated by Kollektiv Collective, the exhibition brings together sculptures, found objects and spatial interventions in a site-specific, immersive installation. Staging how value, form and function change in relation to power over time, the exhibition challenges our relationship to the idea of progress.
Through material manipulations, Solarium considers how aesthetic frameworks galvanise forms of authority: from homogeneous culture to governmental bodies to art institutions. Marble, a signifier of wealth, is rendered as a soft-textured carpet, its individual sections misaligning into what looks like hazard warning stripes. Central to the exhibition space, two sculptural columns reference neoclassical architecture, commonly present in governmental buildings and museums to transmit authority.…






