The Thief’s Gardening Tool Susy Oliveira’s Your face, like a lone nocturnal garden in Worlds where Suns spin ’round! unites poetry, photography and sculpture in an exhibition of objects belonging to a world which lies between multi-dimensional reality and fragmented analog.

The artist’s seemingly computer-generated models consist of photographic facets which form a skin upon a three dimensional structure. The resulting sculptures project into real space, while visually translating cyberspace’s distorted imagery. The viewer’s expectations are interrupted via interaction with works that originate out of this rigorously splintered, yet highly detailed realm. Oliveira’s investigation of virtual and digital planes is brought to fruition in her artistic articulation of flora and fauna. In her artist’s statement, Oliveira asserts that her work at once examines the pervasive preoccupation with replacing nature with fabricated replicas but also delves into ideas of technological reproduction and its implications. She writes, “By definition, the garden — complete with its natural components — is a construction made for our own pleasure and consumption.” Her garden’s connection to pleasure is taken even further by her reference to the work of Jean Genet.