The Corrosive Aisle

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By Gareth Bunting
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Dimensions (HxWxD):

70 × 50 × 0.1 cm

Materials:

Indian ink on Fabriano paper

Primary Medium:

Painting

Medium
2020
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The Corrosive Isle takes its title from a real section in the Amazon warehouse where hazardous products are stored. Created during the years of Brexit and the pandemic, Gareth Bunting’s drawing captures a moment when xenophobia, anxiety, and isolation saturated public consciousness. The piece continues his exploration of the warehouse as both physical and psychological space — a vast, mechanised labyrinth that mirrors the architecture of capitalism itself. Rendered with the same spider’s web-like composition as Back to Freedom, the scene opens into a corridor that stretches towards a forest: an exit, or perhaps an illusion of one. Beyond the sterile order of the aisles, a family walks peacefully among the trees — a distant symbol of hope, beauty, and meaning. In the foreground, an expressively drawn bull, ghostlike and ancient, recalls the primal imagery of cave paintings. Bunting reminds us that, despite our technological progress, we remain the same species — still hunting, gathering, and struggling to survive within new, bewildering systems. Each shelf becomes a comic-panel world of its own. Boxes resemble modernist buildings; corrugated packaging mutates into hive-like forms; and nestled among them are echoes of art history and memory — from Hieronymus Bosch’s surreal creatures to modern consumer relics. The result is a hypnotic meditation on the human condition in the hyperreal age: where myth, labour, and illusion converge inside the mechanical theatre of contemporary life.

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