Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
By Johanna Bear
At 1,200-degrees Celsius, a drop of molten bronze can burn through flesh in seconds. For Lindy Lee, however, working with this dangerous medium holds a meditative power. This sumptuous materiality permeated Lee’s survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), “Moon in a Dew Drop.” Titled after a book by 13th-century Zen monk Dgen, the exhibition posited that even a single drop—be it water or molten metal—contains the universe.
