Mikala Dwyer
Swamp Geometry
10th July – 9th August 2008
Anna Schwartz Gallery
Swamp Geometry: Logic is remodelled and play shifts reality to create its parallel.
Hanging Garden: Planets; micro biospheres; floating worlds, earthed but suspended in an unstable horizon line. Within this world different realities are possible and proposed…other geologies and terrestrial phenomena; superstitions; playing with notions of the known.
The Additions and Substractions: A reverie; an accumulation of self; a constellation of temporary meaning. Sigmund Freud’s collection of antiquities comprised an unconscious archaeology, correspondences across history, externalisations of inner meanings.
Costumes: for a pataphysical theatre of crystallography and architecture. Pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions.
Empty Sculptures: remodel space as repositories for fantasy or reality.
The Moon: Giovanni Riccioli, 16th Century Jesuit astronomer, named the lakes, seas, oceans and craters of the moon, endowing it with human poetics and emotions.
Images
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Mikala Dwyer
The Additions and Subtractions, 2008
Mikala Dwyer
Hanging Garden, 2008
Money plants, plastic and earth
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Mikala Dwyer
Costumes, 2008
Cloth, cardboard and acrylic paint
Dimensions variable
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Mikala Dwyer
Empty Sculpture, 2008
Plastic
Dimensions variable (approx 126 x 190 x 125 cm)
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Mikala Dwyer
Empty Sculpture, 2008
Plastic
Dimensions variable (approx 110 x 200 x 90 cm)
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/dwyer_2008_empty_sculpture3-m.jpg)
Mikala Dwyer
Empty Sculpture, 2008
Plastic
Dimensions variable (approx 200 x 100 x 100 cm)
![](https://annaschwartzgallery.com/asset/library/_medium/Dwyer_2008_The-Moon2.jpg)
Mikala Dwyer
The Moon, 2008
Hessian, felt, modelling clay and cardboard
Dimensions variable (banner 750 x 125 cm; planets 30 cm diameter)