Museum show in Lithuania

The drawings that form the Torture Garden wallpainting are a direct reaction to the ‘Fachwerk Hall’ at Klaipeda’s main art museum. Representing the first site specific work to be commissioned by an institution in Lithuania the work explores the complex captive relationship mankind has with the environment.

Fachwerk is a German term for Framework, which refers to the timber construction of the room. Dalton’s work investigates the relationship between the physical and the representational. The oak framework in the Hall is a brutally constructed room; it is has been hacked out of the belly of Mother Nature.

The wall drawing features branches suspended using bondage equipment such as hand-cuffs and harnesses. The construction was created in Dalton’s studio and is a direct visualisation of the way in which the environment has become fetishised. The artist’s work is a dialogue with the arts and crafts movement and can be seen to emulate the decorative work of Morris and Co..

Photos courtesy Oleg Tolstoy