00:00Among sculptures like these, it's hard to shake the feeling you're not alone.
00:07He brings such a tenderness to the face.
00:10Detailed down to the last freckle, eyelash and frown line, Ron Muick's newest exhibition, Encounter, is as captivating as it is confronting.
00:19All of this sculpting is just done so quietly and on his own. They all take months and years to make.
00:27From miniscule to massive, the puppet maker-turned-sculptor's work captures the human experience at its most raw and vulnerable.
00:35Everybody he sees may provide a detail. He's looking at his own feet. He's looking at images on the internet and photographs in newspapers.
00:46That sort of intensity of us burning couple pulling you into the miniature.
00:51What we've seen is that people are totally drawn to them.
00:54And what's been extraordinary for us is just seeing the length of time that's spent with those.
00:58People appearing at them from every angle.
01:01The centrepiece of this exhibition is Havoc, a larger-than-life depiction of dogs readying for a fight.
01:07It's one of around 50 sculptures Muick made over his decades-long career.
01:11He rarely makes public appearances and doesn't give interviews. Instead, hoping his work can speak for itself.
01:17Ron does prefer people to really get their own interpretation of the works.
01:23He doesn't want to give any narratives and that's why it's so interesting to see people's responses and often they're quite different.
01:29You are in the world of that sculpture for that moment. That's what the encounter is.
01:34An eerie world maybe, but one not so different from our own.
01:39bardzo co- Hera from sottofondo.
01:53Everybody wrapping these up.
01:55I'm really excited.
01:57I'm almost niely futurist.
02:01I'm looking for them.
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