The work of Consuelo Cavaniglia considers how we see and understand space. She is interested in how bodies inhabit spaces, often developing immersive installations that expose the ways in which the structure of a space situates and shapes us. The work unsettles the relationship between viewer and space through the use of reflective and transparent materials and subtle structural devices. Her work challenges the perceptual expectations of forms and surfaces through angling, layering, and offsetting reflections and shadows.

Cavaniglia’s new body of work uses glass to extend her interest in colour and optics. Following a residency at Canberra Glassworks, the work features handmade glass for the first time. Sheets of glass are supported by a series of modular structures and spatialised within the gallery forming a visual trail through the space. Understandings of transparency and opacity, smoothness and texture, and colour relationships are created and changing depending on where they are approached from. It invites us to question what shapes our perception and in turn how perception guides our position in space.

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