From Swirner’s site: “The works in Spirit Level emerged from a period of profound loss for Lewis. In the conception of these anthropomorphic figures, the artist developed respective identities and narratives that implicate our ancestral pasts, spiritual and cultural similitudes, and multiplanar existences. Comprising found and inherited objects, each sculpture embodies the transitional period in which they were made as well as the liminal space in a material object’s journey as it changes hands and takes on a new form.

Drawing from the faces of the Caribbean Sea, techno and dub music, literature, and studies of religion and spirituality, with this exhibition Lewis expands her world-building, weaving figures that reappear across her practice, connected by what she calls their ‘material DNA.’”