Son Gallery are pleased to present Yuri Pattison's solo exhibition focal-plane. In the installation traditional museum vitrines are used as a display area for complex digital media systems through which visual material is streamed. This includes found video from nuclear surveys carried out in the aftermath of the 2011 Japan earthquake, a series of photographs taken by Pattison at the derelict site of the 2004 Athens Olympics, and more ephemeral material channelled through a live internet feed from social media websites and tumblr's. The gallery itself, painted in unconventional, neutral colours and with the vitrine packing cases set as a spectating area, creates an engaging physical space intended to foreground virtual material.

Pattison's display methods elevate the impermanence of the digital file alongside the permanence of traditional artistic media, he says, "this mirrors my interest in how the internet has collapsed time: that while everything is changing at an amazing pace, the recent past is also as present as ever." As a result dystopic themes recur in Pattison's work as an increasingly accessible past haunts the increasingly disposable now. This sentimnet is countered, however, by the creative opportunities Pattison evokes in such cross-overs.

The gallery exhibition will be accompanied by an online intervention effected by Pattison on the Son Gallery website (www.songallery.co.uk). This will be an interactive installation linking in content from the gallery exhibition.

Yuri Pattison (b.Dublin) studied at Goldsmith's College of Art and currently lives and works in London. His practice explores the ways in which digital media creates and disseminates visual material, often his projects include elements of networking, using online platforms, and collaboration. As well as pursuing his own practice he works within the collaborative framework of LuckyPDF and is a co-founder of creative collective Off Modern.