Weights of Light

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.

一群半透明且空灵缥缈的形体在空中缓缓滑行，当它们的倒影在窗棂与玻璃表面铺展开来时，数量便随之增殖。依据观者的视角，以及它们对光线的吸收与折射方式，这些形体时而坚实具象，时而缥缈无形，在显与隐之间往复切换。毕竟，艺术家米卡拉·德怀尔（Mikala Dwyer）将这些作品称为“空的雕塑”与“无之形”。而通过光影、材质与形态的基础逻辑，结合尺度的扭曲重构，德怀尔让观者仿若沉浸式穿行于这些作品之间，一如中庭窗牖引动外界光线——这种始终令无数艺术家心驰神往的核心媒介。