Lynette Wallworth - Duality of Light (solo exhibition)
19 February - 24 April 2009
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum
University of South Australia, Hawke Building, 55 North Terrace
Opening hours: Mon - Sun 11.00 am- 5.00pm, during the Adelaide Film Festival
19 February - 1 March 2009
Adelaide, AU
The Samstag Museum presents Lynette Wallworth's first major solo exhibition in her native country. The exhibition includes a commission through the Adelaide Film Festival
Investment Fund, Duality of Light, which headlines the new Art and Moving Image strand of its programme.
Duality of Light is the last in a trilogy of interactive video installations investigating powerful human emotions such as grief, loss and the re-emergence of hope. This new work will be exhibited alongside other established works, including Invisible by Night, the first work in the trilogy (2004). Hold: Vessel 1 & 2, Damavand Mountain and Beautiful Sunset will also be exhibited. Some of these works have never been seen in Australia.
In her current body of work, Wallworth specialises in the creation of immersive installation environments that offer tactile gateways to the viewing experience. Frequently, the works are developed in series to provide a sense of a cumulative process that changes over time. The
environments are not passive spaces but rely on activation by the participant/viewer.
Wallworth’s work is about the relationships between ourselves and nature, about how we are made up of our physical and biological environments, even as we re-make the world through our activities. The activation of the work by the viewer becomes a metaphor for our connectedness within biological, social and ecological systems. She uses technology to reveal the hidden intricacies of human immersion in the wide, complex world.
Works included in the exhibition:
Duality of Light
Invisible by Night
Hold: Vessel 1 & 2
Damavand Mountain
Beautiful Sunset
Lynette Wallworth – Duality of Light
Presented by Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, produced by Forma
Photos: Colin Davison Image courtesy National Glass Centre and the artist
