Starry Starry Night

Plasterboard / wood / halogen lights

Five Years Gallery, London, 2000

Tiny beams of bright light extrude from a wall in the darkened gallery. These pin-pricks project, magic lantern-style, across the walls to create distorted, ersatz constellations. But this luminous, ethereal environment is cheaply achieved. Close inspection reveals that the glowing wall is a partition of warped hardboard with holes roughly cut through it; one can step around the division and view the miasma of halogen spotlights, tangled cables and studio ephemera that facilitate the pleasant illusion out front. Bingo — the sanctity of the white cube is ‘punctured’ and the mechanics of spectacular seduction ‘exposed’. Hawrysio makes her case with economy and restraint. — Martin Herbert, Time Out

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Martin Herbert, Time Out