Using everyday materials under tinted flashlights, artist Lydia Wegner’s photographs are at once abstract, but speak to very specific architectural forms. In this series the functional and cheerful pieces, plastics, joins and kinetic elements that make up a playground are under her lens. The effect is an energetic field of colour and texture and celebration of play. Adding another layer of playfulness there will be pastel-toned park benches in the gallery to evoke “a sense of recreational space and activity, welcoming visitors to sit and interact within her own space of diversion.”
Lydia Wegner, Red Mirror Cut, 2017, archival inkjet print, 106 x 71cm. Courtesy the artist and ARC ONE Gallery, Melbourne
ARC ONE Gallery
Until 13 April, 2017
Melbourne
