Duality of Light
Duality of Light was commissioned by the BigPond 2009 Adelaide Film Festival for their Art and Moving Image strand, made possible through the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund. Presented alongside four other established works by the artist at the Samstag Museum, this is the first time the Festival will utilise a gallery space in a bold new move to showcase the use of film in wider cultural circles such as in contemporary art.
The work completes a trilogy of video installations begun by Wallworth in 2004 with the piece Invisible by Night followed by Evolution of Fearlessness in 2006. These works use video as a medium of meeting to communicate powerful human emotions: grief and loss and the re-emergence of hope.
Duality of Light is an immersive environment to be experienced by one person at a time. It allows each visitor to go on a unique and singular journey through a soundscape that challenges our perception of space. In navigating the installation environment, visitors will encounter others whose surprising presence reveals the Duality at the heart of the work. Like all Wallworth’s work Duality of Light utilises the most recent technological tools for immersion and interactivity in order to reveal some of the most fundamental states of human existence.
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Lynette Wallworth, Duality of Light
Commissioned by Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund 2009
Produced by Forma
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body
Photo: Grant Hancock (courtesy of the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum)
