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THE IMAGE UNFOLDS

29 APRIL - 22 MAY 2021

SEVENTH GALLERY, CPA RESIDENCY OUTCOME

The Image Unfolds explores the ability of architecture and projected image to work in symbiosis, forming a reflexive relationship: from three dimensional space, a two dimensional image is captured, only to become three dimensional again as projected light, wrapping and warping with the architecture of the gallery space. Images morph to momentarily align with architectural elements and interlace with their bisected counterparts, embodying a poetic repetition of loss and longing.

These light-based interventions encourage a particular way of seeing which highlights architectural features and phenomenological encounters with the space itself. In The Image Unfolds, architecture becomes a lens through which to view the world, much like the eye of a camera which is directed by bodily movement. Images become expanded and unfixed: gallery windows crop their contents visually, shifting and changing as you adjust positions, the plane of a wall is also an image, four walls can become a frame if you look hard enough; then the image will unfold.

The Centre for Projection Art, Artist in Residence Program is currently supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and the Besen Family Foundation.

Documentation by Aaron Rees