THE SMALL (2025)

installation with 840 bronze sculptures

Installed along a long internal wall at MOCAK—the Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków—as part of Mytych’s 2025 monographic exhibition, The Small builds upon an earlier iteration first shown at McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery (Victoria, Australia, 2014). Reimagined for this space, the work stretches across the gallery in a shifting, organic rhythm. Hundreds of bronze figures rise from reclaimed concrete pavers, arranged in a natural, irregular pattern. Beginning low and sparse at one end, they grow into dense, vertical clusters, resembling a community of plants observed from afar.

Each sculpture draws from art history, with gestures and postures echoing classical Greek forms, fragments of Rodin, or the bodies of Delacroix and Degas. Cast in bronze—traditionally used to monumentalise—their small scale subverts expectation. The work honours what is not large, not obvious. It resists the hegemony of the big.

By rendering small and seemingly insignificant forms in bronze, Mytych challenges the link between size and importance. Diminishing materiality does not lessen meaning. The Small asks us to reconsider what holds our attention, and how value can gather quietly through detail, variation, and presence.

Bronze, Patina, Cement Pavers,
840 elements: dimensions variable from 1.0 x 1.0 x 1.5 cm to 2.0 x 2.0 x 6.5 cm