Fantasy of virtue/ All things and nothing

Becc Ország’s meticulously rendered drawings feel both familiar, yet strange. Composed from an assemblage of landscape images sourced from the internet, they are collaged, layered and manipulated digitally before being drawn in graphite pencil on paper. Mirror imaging and the addition of unexpected elements within the composition emphasise the artificiality of these landscapes. They are not scenes taken from the world as we know it; rather, they are works of fiction.

We can see words taken from songs, instruction manuals and religious texts, with cryptic symbols rendered in gold. These snippets of text and golden icons question the way we attribute value to certain shapes and symbols, as they operate as potential ciphers to decode the image.

Ország is interested in ideas of religion, faith and magic and the question of what draws people to different belief systems. Her invented worlds reflect on the quest for higher meaning, whether through imagined utopias, or the perfect promised land. As humans continue to seek spaces for the sacred, their religions, politics and cultures will eventually pass. It is only nature that endures.