Louis Morlæ (1992, Melbourne, AU. Lives and works in London, UK) is an artist whose multimedia world-building spans sculpture, video, installation and robotics, together exploring the intersection of digital technology, industrial design and character-driven narrative. Interested less in a distant and abstracted future, but the furthest and most tantalising edges of what might be possible within the current moment, Morlæ’s work evokes a surreal, science-fictional landscape populated with an array of android-like figures, game-engine animations and futuristic mechanical infrastructure.

Created using contemporary techniques of computer-aided design, 3D printing and algorithmic processing, his work touches on the metaverse, industrial automation and artificial intelligence, depicting humanity’s accelerating relationship to the digital with tactility, escapism and humour, oscillating between visions of progress and upheaval, utopia and dystopia.