Lynette Wallworth - Duality of Light (solo show)

In 2009 The BigPond Adelaide Film Festival commissioned Lynette Wallworth to make a new work - Duality of Light - to feature alongside established works at The Samstag Museum in an exhibition of the same name. Duality of Light headlined the new Art and Moving Image strand of the Festival's programme, which was her first major solo show in her native country.

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 work was 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. Some of these works had never previously been seen in Australia.

In Duality of Light, Wallworth specialises in the creation of immersive installation environments that offer tactile gateways to the viewing experience. Frequently, her projects 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.

In 2011 Duality of Light made it's US premiere as part of the White Light Festival at the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, NY.

Exhibition

19 February - 24 April 2009 | 2009 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival, Adelaide, AU
31 October - 13 November 2011 | 2011 White Light Festival, New York City, US

Works included in the Adelaide Film Festival exhibition:

Duality of Light
Invisible by Night
Hold: Vessel 1 & 2
Damavand Mountain
Beautiful Sunset

For further information please visit:

http://www.adelaidefilmfestival.org/
White Light Festival

Lynette Wallworth – Duality of Light (solo exhibition)
Presented by Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum, produced by Forma

Photos:
Top Left:Grant Hancock (courtesy of Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum)
Top Right: Colin Davison Image courtesy National Glass Centre and the artist

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