Shaun Gladwell’s The Lacrima Chair (video detail) opens at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation; courtesy the artist and SCAF
‘If I wasn’t an artist I would want to be an ornithologist,’ the celebrated Australian ex-pat artist told ArtsHub, ‘I am really obsessed with animals in general, but birds in particular.’
While an owl features in Shaun Gladwell’s site-specific commission at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF), it is a broader narrative of flight and the evocative emotional space that a passage between places can offer, which has captured Gladwell’s imagination in this new work.
