Odessa Mahoney-de Vries ~ IN | SITE Residency Showing

One night inside The Old Lock-Up, Cotton Tree.

Indonesian–Australian artist Odessa Mahony-de Vries unveils a new sculptural installation spread through the cells and corridors of the building.

Her work explores the racially ambiguous body - how bodies are seen and read - using sculptural forms that blur the line between body, object and architecture.

Expect strange shapes, shifting bodies, and sculptures that feel a little bit alive in the space they’re in.

Our.guest DJ will be playing through the night, with the building open after dark - come wander, hang out, and see what’s been growing inside the walls.

About the IN | SITE RESIDENCY 

The IN | SITE RESIDENCY is a paid, four-week opportunity for artists to create and present new work at The Old Lock-Up. The program invites projects that are site-responsive, site-specific or site-designed, encouraging artists to engage the building as a total environment. Emerging from IN | ARI’s long-standing culture of dialogue and collaboration, the residency supports artists to move beyond the contours of their current practice - testing new materials, ideas and conceptual trajectories that may not yet have a public form. It provides a platform for research-led experimentation and immersive, spatially responsive work that unfolds across the site. IN SITE RESIDENCY is designed as a space for risk, depth and new propositions - a context where artists are trusted to expand their practice and develop ambitious, sensorial projects that respond directly to place.
Odessa Mahony-de Vries undertook a four-week residency with IN | ARI at The Old Lock-Up, developing a new body of sculptural work that explores the racially ambiguous body and the dynamics of objectification. Working in close dialogue with the architecture and material presence of the site, Mahony-de Vries will create highly responsive sculptures shaped by the scale, texture and spatial conditions of the environment. Throughout the residency, Mahony-de Vries will experiment with form and material while deepening her ongoing investigation into identity and the complexities of social and cultural belonging. The resulting installation will unfold as a spatial encounter between body, object and site, inviting audiences to reflect on the ways bodies are read, positioned and mediated within space.
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