Lara Favaretto @ Tramway

As anyone who had the misfortune of watching Final Destination 3D will tell you, the Car Wash can be a pretty treacherous place. I’m reminded of this upon setting foot in the cavernous white space wherein Lara Favaretto’s kinetic sculptures – large, rotating multicoloured brushes – are exhibited in Tramway 2.

Entering the space, rain-drenched on a Glasgow-weathered Wednesday, these whirring, water-affiliated monsters seem to eye me ironically from their various posts encircling the walls. But blasted by gusts of air generated by their alternately spinning motion, I am dried almost instantaneously.

Favaretto’s works will prove a welcome hairdryer to all citizens braving the winter weather to see this show. A sign dictates that ‘Children Must be Accompanied by Adults’ and I myself experience an almost irrepressible urge to run into the spinning vortex where the fringes of the closely coupled turning brushes create a wavy, mesmerising seam. Vast in scale, their power and force of movement is extremely compelling. The longer fronds’ rotation resembles the undulating motion of a spinning pottery wheel, while a fulsome baby pink number at the back bears a striking resemblance to grossly oversized carnival candy floss. Their brightness too, colours lime green, orange and purple, seem to invite a childish exuberance in their very presence.

The artist’s contradictory fusion of frivolity and threat is expertly embodied by these busily revolving pieces and continued in her floor works; large cubes immersed in black confetti. Static, some brushes suggest Addams Family lineage, assuming the appearance of that featureless, hair enshrouded creature "Thing", whom Favaretto, we can surmise, intended to playfully reference in naming piece no. 5 thus.