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Weights of Light

RMIT University, Australia
Mikala Dwyer (Aggregated by)
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A family of translucent and ethereal bodies glide through the air, multiplying as their reflections spread across windows and glass surfaces. Depending on your perspective, and how they absorb and refract the light, they appear solid or intangible, flicking between visibility and invisibility. After all, these are “empty sculptures”, “shapes of nothing” according to artist Mikala Dwyer. But through the simple phenomena of light, material and form, and by contorting scale, Dwyer lets us imagine ourselves somehow drawn through them, like the atrium windows drawing the outside light, that elemental medium that has endlessly fascinated artists.

Issued: 2022

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ACMI | Fine arts | Ma | empty | light | monumental | nothing | plasticity | sculpture | site specific | transparency | void |

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url : https://www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-ideas/discombobulating-sensations-mikala-dwyer-on-weights-of-light/

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ACN 633 798 857