Lachlan Anthony: Geometric Asylum

Overview

Whether you live in an airy apartment or spend your time in a cosy cafe, the physical spaces you inhabit are likely to be warm and welcoming. They're a careful product of architecture and design calculated to make you feel comfortable; however not all places boast the same look, feel and atmosphere.

Some spaces can be hostile and exclusionary, acting as a deterrent or enforcing forms of power and control. For audiences largely unaccustomed to this relationship with the walls around them, Melbourne-based creative Lachlan Anthony explores the more formidable side of the built environment.

Geometric Asylum will turn Metro Arts into the kind of restricted area no one usually wants to find themselves within, imposing limitations on each patron's movement throughout the gallery in order to explore the harsher side of spatial strategy. Wander through the world Anthony has created from July 13, then head back on the exhibition's closing day on July 30 to hear the sculpture, performance and installation artist reflect upon the experience.

Image: Lachlan Anthony, Vast Impenetrability, 2015.