Ellie Hoskins combines sculpture, video, text and sound to create installations that blend personal memories, the excesses of internet culture and ordinary observations into immersive fictional worlds. Balancing humour with melancholy, her work finds unexpected emotion in the overlooked details of everyday contemporary life.

Central to this installation is a baby: Ellie imagines her life with a fictional child to both interrupt reality, and reinforce it. An audio work follows the artist and this baby through the world, where fairy tales unravel into lists of different types of car parks and domestic scenes become reflections on technology, loneliness and our desire for connection.

A wonky, dilapidated rollercoaster forms the structure of the installation, a ride built for pleasure that is slowly falling apart. Woven into its frame is a constellation of screens showing simple yet surreal videos in which the artist’s face is camouflaged into everyday scenes through face painting, revealing itself only through the occasional blink. Sculptural figures resembling the artist and her child cling to or drift through the structure, caught between movement and stillness.

These fragments form a landscape where humour, decay and longing coexist without resolution. Alive in a world of car parks, armed with an air fryer and a fake baby reflects on the emotional contradictions of contemporary life. This is a world that is difficult to make sense of, where technology, domestic life and the built environment quietly shape the ways we experience each other and ourselves.