Swimming amidst sculptures

From Caroline Bagenal’s exhibition “Swimming Sculptures’’ at Boston Sculptors Gallery, Nov. 9-Dec. 16.

The gallery says:

The show “comprises sculpture, embroidered photographs and video based on her experience of swimming in tidal rivers and lakes. With her uncanny sculptures attached to her body, Bagenal takes to the water and swims with them, activating and transforming the work as it marks the movements of her body and the water’s currents.”

“The swimming sculptures are made from recycled woven plastic, bubble wrap and other materials that float. They derive in part from the artist’s embroidered photographs, which function as part of her creative process—a kind of drawing with thread which she uses to imagine future sculptures.’’

Freedom and confinement

"Summer Palace'' (large suspended sculpture built from latticed panels), by Caroline Bagenal, at Boston Sculptors Gallery, May 10-June 11. Ms, Bagenal explores themes of freedom and confinement, evoking, says the gallery, "exterior and interior worlds.''