I was up in Sydney today, and spent a bit of time wandering around the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Rocks up there. To be honest, I didn’t even know it was there until I was idly wandering past.

Sam Taylor-Wood’s exhibition was interesting, but didn’t entirely grab me. I guess there’s something about taking emotional portraits of a bunch of big name actors which seems a little more like name dropping than art.

What I did really like was the Tim Noble and Sue Webster installation (I don’t think that particular piece was there, but several in a similar vain). Basically, it’s a bunch of welded metal which just looks like a clump, but displays a silhouette (or several) when a light projector is placed very precisely. The pieces which were actually on display seemed to play a little more with negative space than the one linked above, but in truth I liked it more for the novelty than any real artistic value.

Anyway, all in all, definitely worth a visit, though I do wish I’d organised things and been there for the guided tour.

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