Had a great chat with Teal Griffin and Charlie Harrison about janky realism, analogue AI, and all things oracular.

Oracle, an installation at Chemist Gallery, is the third chapter in an on-going collaborative series between artists Teal Griffin and Charlie Harrison. It follows in the steps of the perceptual dreamscape of Sandman Mattresses at Jupiter Woods in 2021, and the watery, social sensorium of Neptune’s Launderette at Art Lacuna in 2023. These shows playfully unpick the conventions of the art exhibition and film set, engaging viewers in the illusion of something familiar yet strange, unsettling and absurd.


Griffin and Harrison’s immersive installations transform the everyday into myth, blurring the real and the constructed. Given closer inspection, the legitimacy of the features and objects in the space start to give way, leaving the visitor questioning their own perception.

Whilst Sandman was conceptualised through sleep and dream, and Neptune through water and space; Oracle will speak to the future, clarity and flimsy premonition, through the guise of a high-street opticians. Oracle opticians, see the future clearly.