Van Sowerwine

Van Sowerwine creates artworks that play with tensions between seemingly opposite forces such as light and darkness, danger and safety, the benign and the malignant. Her artworks use the symbols of play - populated as they are with dolls and cubbyhouses, peepholes and wind up mechanisms. The audience is enticed not only to look, but to touch. It's only once we begin to play, that Sowerwine turns the tables on us. Her toys become dangerous, her dolls lose their sweetness. [...]

Van Sowerwine creates artworks that play with tensions between seemingly opposite forces such as light and darkness, danger and safety, the benign and the malignant. Her artworks use the symbols of play - populated as they are with dolls and cubbyhouses, peepholes and wind up mechanisms. The audience is enticed not only to look, but to touch. It's only once we begin to play, that Sowerwine turns the tables on us. Her toys become dangerous, her dolls lose their sweetness.

Extrait du Communiqué de Presse de l'exposition "09/05/2007 - 09/06/2007) - Stills Gallery (Paddington, Australie)