The Hollows 2014 – working with plastic -
beautiful - the play of elements air and light made visible by the material qualities, transparency...
Mikala Dwyer sculpts air. Nestled between
the internal columns of the historic Naval Store 2 building in the Docks
Precinct of Cockatoo
Island, the artist has created a new site-specific work. Heating
transparent, acrylic material to produce a kind of exoskeleton, Dwyer’s large
and lumpy The Hollows (2014) fights for its own space, and occupies it in an
act of bravura. Her shapes may seem fragile because of their transparency, but
they are – like the methodology that has made them – strong, resilient and
prepared to risk seeming impermanent in the face of immutable architecture. In
keeping with Dwyer’s methodology, The Hollows substantiates traces of the
effort that has created it.
For more than two decades, Dwyer’s artistic
practice has pushed the boundaries of installation, performance and sculpture.
Often borrowing methods and ideologies from science, her artworks are playfully
complex installations that invite the viewer to walk in and around them –
becoming immersed in a fantastical new world that investigates imagination and
emotion.
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