The Other Half: Past and Future Now - Michael MacGarry

New sculpture, installation, photography and video. The centrepiece of the exhibition is the large-scale sculpture Faro RLV 3-10, an unmanned field artillery cannon (Remote Land Vehicle) of the Nigerian Federal Army in the year 2052, conceived, designed and manufactured by the artist, principally in mild steel. Another key sculpture is Iceman, made in plastic resin from the body cast of a heavyweight bodybuilder; the head and face, however, are those of the artist. The installation La Maison d'une Artiste is a future projection - embodying in equal parts lyrical humour and masculine critique - of the central narrative of Edmond de Goncourt's 1881 book of the same name.

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