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Public Gallery is pleased to present Gut Friendly, a duo exhibition of painting and sculpture by artists Victor Bengtsson and Umico Niwa, whose individual practices uniquely trace cycles of decay and renewal, together meditating on digestion as a poetic framework for processes of transformation. From this dialogue emerges a meditation on friendship – a porous exchange through which individual forms are metabolized into hybridized wholes, conjured through mythical acts of excavation and preservation.
Umico Niwa’s practice moves between sculpture and installation, creating worlds where myth and animism intertwine. Often fashioned from scavenged or organic materials – electroplated branches, fruit rinds, dried flora – her hybrid beings appear both mischievous and tender, inviting viewers to project memory and fantasy onto their delicate frames, blurring the boundary between play and ritual. From intimate objects to site-specific...More
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Public Gallery is pleased to present Gut Friendly, a duo exhibition of painting and sculpture by artists Victor Bengtsson and Umico Niwa, whose individual practices uniquely trace cycles of decay and renewal, together meditating on digestion as a poetic framework for processes of transformation. From this dialogue emerges a meditation on friendship – a porous exchange through which individual forms are metabolized into hybridized wholes, conjured through mythical acts of excavation and preservation.
Umico Niwa’s practice moves between sculpture and installation, creating worlds where myth and animism intertwine. Often fashioned from scavenged or organic materials – electroplated branches, fruit rinds, dried flora – her hybrid beings appear both mischievous and tender, inviting viewers to project memory and fantasy onto their delicate frames, blurring the boundary between play and ritual. From intimate objects to site-specific...More
