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Play and architecture collide in Lydia Wegner鈥檚 second solo show at Arc One Gallery, Swing. Opening drinks will be held on Thursday 16 March, 6-8pm. Lydia Wegner鈥檚 latest photographic experiments in the studio reveal a joyful manipulation of everyday materials and light. Stepping away from her earlier photographs of recognisable objects poised before the camera, in Swing Wegner positions her props under tinted flashlights and refocuses our gaze on vibrant geometric shapes, shadows, sheens and textures, with striking tonal effects. Highly composed yet transitory, her sculptural studies gently balance between abstraction and reality, now hanging as lively photographs in their bespoke frames. Swing combines the artist鈥檚 intuitive approach to assembling her delicate constructions with physical sites of play, such as community playgrounds. Taking inspiration from shiny slippery dips, angular seesaws and undulating swings, Wegner echoes these functional and cheerful forms with jagged steps of colour, rippling papers and ricocheting light. With the introduction of pastel-toned park benches in the gallery, she emulates public architecture and further evokes a sense of recreational space and activity, welcoming visitors to sit and interact within her own space of diversion. Continually bouncing between sculptural and photographic practices in an exploration of the abstract and the known, in Swing Wegner activates fields of energy and colour in a celebration of the pleasure of play.