Mark Justiniani depicts the seemingly boundless city into a capsule world of peril and chance. The work's enchantment arises from the artist's deft combination of materials and form, a cartography that captures our experience of city life. He breaks apart the urban grid with images inserted in gaps of ordered space. The shifting colours and infinity mirrors endow a buoyant quality, a fleeting air, an ever-changing atmosphere. This metropolis of raw and open-ended elements is an edifice of unrelenting change, a cityscape of shifting forms. Such elusiveness is shared by cities we live in, pervaded as they are with relentless movement and fractious speed. Justiniani freezes a moment in this heedless rhythm and depicts a fragment of the city's inner life. We are confronted with a likeness, an urban phantom.

With the metropolis as a chosen juncture, Mark Justiniani yet again exhibits a keen awareness of the human condition. Peering into the boxed mirrors, one sees a reflection of the self amid objects - tires tottering above spikes, the salaried man on an uphill climb, underground turbines, dangling chains. The artist reflects on existence and whether the cadences we embrace are part of the universe's overarching rhythm. Or rather, are we dangerously straying from this path and succumbing to structures that control? Amid the bustle and haste, a question is raised and reflected back at us, that of existence and survival in a world of bewildering excess.