Michael McCormack interrogates the politics of space and the paradox of freedom within structure. Using timber, steel, and other synthetics, he constructs fragmented systems that destabilise conventional function, tipping stability into tension and imbalance. These interventions extend and disrupt existing architectural vocabularies, reassigning power from fixed space to sculptural gesture. His work embraces theatricality not as deficiency but as activation, where the viewer’s movement and negotiation activate the work. In doing so, it stages the interplay of freedom, power, and agency as conditions embedded within space itself.