ETHEREALITY
Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Through sculpture, installation, and digital media, Bailey constructs immersive landscapes where the physical and virtual dissolve into one another, interrogating the shifting nature of perception, selfhood, and data.
In Ethereality, the artist renders the logic of the screen into sculptural form—glass-like objects resembling frozen glitches, metallic panels etched with encrypted text, and structures that mimic digital interfaces yet refuse interactivity. The exhibition acts as a liminal zone, where images exist on the edge of legibility and information is both present and withheld.
Bailey’s practice examines the tension between visibility and disappearance, referencing internet subcultures, surveillance aesthetics, and speculative digital archives. Her use of AI-generated imagery, coded inscriptions, and fragmented self-representation questions the mechanics of seeing in an era where bodies exist as data, and identity is both hyper-visible and obscured.
Ethereality builds on Bailey’s previous works, including Loobtopia and Endlessity (released on Metalabel), which use AI to interrogate the shifting boundaries between lived experience and algorithmic perception. The exhibition was developed in part during her residency at NIROX Sculpture Park, where she explored digital abstraction as material form.
Bailey’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at Carpenters Workshop Gallery (curated by Michele Lamy, ICD Brookfield Place, Dubai), as well as in London, Berlin, New York, and Hong Kong.
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LOOBTOPIA
University of the Arts London, Camberwell, 2023
Looby/Luby/L03-b prototype: loobtopia
250 x 200 x 250 cm
Installation consisting of PVC banner print, audio equipment and video with original sound
and film - duration: 13 mins
THE GARDEN OF
The Garden of
3000 cm x 890 cm,
digital collage printed on tracing paper, plastic tubing, steel.