Exhibition Opening | Mikala Dwyer 'Shit Flowers'

Please join us at Passage on Friday, 8 August, from 6–8 PM for the opening of Mikala Dwyer’s ‘Shit Flowers’, with a performance by Olive Dwyer unfolding in the space throughout the evening.

Mikala Dwyer’s installations are often charged with playful provocation, but beneath their exuberance lies something more occult, more unruly. Her sculptural arrangements pull at the edges of logic and propriety, using the everyday as a gateway into the psychic, the social, and the unseen. Drawing on a long-held interest in modernist spatial language, Dwyer builds sites that feel at once theatrical and deeply intimate. These are works that pulse with relational energy, ambiguity, and quiet acts of defiance.

In Shit Flowers, the gallery is transformed into a kind of digestive theatre. In the centre, a ring of grey objects, each topped with a selfie light ring and ghosted over with plastic bags, glows like a formation of…