Dayle Palfreyman, Mimicry, 2023. Image courtesy of the artist.
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Mimicry presents new sculptural and photographic works by emerging artists Dayle Palfreyman and Nicholas Males. The artists share a conceptual interest in the experiential and social relationships that an encounter with particular objects, surfaces and sculptural arrangements can stimulate in an art environment.
Nicholas Males has developed a new interactive work responding to office life mundanities, and his frequent interactions within environments which we associate with both on a conscious and subconscious level. His installation, BAU – Business as Usual (2023), involves flatbed scanners with imagery scanned back and forth between screens. The viewer is witness to the real time degradation of visual data as it is processed, contrasted against the relative robustness of 90’s technology built to be repaired rather than replaced.
By working primarily with metal and beeswax, Dayle Palfreyman creates autonomous spaces that explore historical and thematic relationships between power and violence, desire and repulsion, and manipulation and temptation. New works created for Mimicry extends Palfreyman’s previous work with the addition of the figure; decaying bodily matter coalesces here with both solid and fluid formations. The artist focuses on the reduction of flesh within a private space for this exhibition, conversing with Celtic myth, individual and collective identity, and bio-relations.
Drawing on the viewer’s pre-existing associations with certain material qualities and subject matter, Palfreyman and Males play with affect and perception by inverting our typical expectations of objects and encounter.
Unfortunately one of the artists in this exhibition has contracted COVID, their work will now arrive from Te Whanganui-a-Tara by Sat 10 June. The opening of this exhibition has been postponed to June 10 from 2 – 4PM.
Opening Hours
- Tuesday - Saturday, 10am-4pm
Address
- 28 Clarence Street
- Te Hau Kapua / Devonport
- 0624
- Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Mimicry presents new sculptural and photographic works by emerging artists Dayle Palfreyman and Nicholas Males. The artists share a conceptual interest in the experiential and social relationships that an encounter with particular objects, surfaces and sculptural arrangements can stimulate in an art environment.
Nicholas Males has developed a new interactive work responding to office life mundanities, and his frequent interactions within environments which we associate with both on a conscious and subconscious level. His installation, BAU – Business as Usual (2023), involves flatbed scanners with imagery scanned back and forth between screens. The viewer is witness to the real time degradation of visual data as it is processed, contrasted against the relative robustness of 90’s technology built to be repaired rather than replaced.
By working primarily with metal and beeswax, Dayle Palfreyman creates autonomous spaces that explore historical and thematic relationships between power and violence, desire and repulsion, and manipulation and temptation. New works created for Mimicry extends Palfreyman’s previous work with the addition of the figure; decaying bodily matter coalesces here with both solid and fluid formations. The artist focuses on the reduction of flesh within a private space for this exhibition, conversing with Celtic myth, individual and collective identity, and bio-relations.
Drawing on the viewer’s pre-existing associations with certain material qualities and subject matter, Palfreyman and Males play with affect and perception by inverting our typical expectations of objects and encounter.
Unfortunately one of the artists in this exhibition has contracted COVID, their work will now arrive from Te Whanganui-a-Tara by Sat 10 June. The opening of this exhibition has been postponed to June 10 from 2 – 4PM.
