Private View I Dillwyn Smith: Light Cages

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The artist will present his newest series of work, developed exclusively from stitches and stretches of mass-produced nylon fabrics, which he turns into geometric kaleidoscopes that make our ugly little world tumultuously bright.

Smith’s pieces appear like literal ‘fabrications’ that bathe in raw materiality. Translucent and opaque fabrics interweave and give apertures to the layers beneath: beams, nails and fabric seams are laid bare probing the ‘canvas’ boundaries through deconstructivist techniques. Undeniably, the Brutalist aspect of VO’s space, formerly home to David Chipperfield Architects, and its exposed concrete columns, sharp angles, strip tube lighting fuses with the raw and unpretentious honesty of Smith’s works.