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Ricky Swallow, 'Bent Forms #1–#4', 2025

Where
Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art
140 George Street , The Rocks NSW 2000
Level 4, Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace
When

Mondays and Wednesdays to Sundays, 10am to 5pm Wednesday 6 August to Monday 20 July 2026

Cost

Adult: $20Concession: $16Tertiary student: $16Under 18s: $0MCA Members: $0

Ricky Swallow’s Loti Smorgon Sculpture Terrace Commission transforms four everyday stainless steel spoons into something unfamiliar by altering their scale and context.

Bent Forms #1–#4 has been created by Swallow from scaled-up wax prints of actual teaspoons, which he has bent into various shapes. Envisioned as a kind of tableau, or grouping of figures, the sculptures are products of intense studio labour. Their distorted forms reference spoon bending, a trick often performed to demonstrate telekinesis – the supposed manipulation of objects through the mind. Like many of the artist’s works, these sculptures capture an energy that is not visible or immediately understood.

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