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Waterfall

18th August – 2nd September

 

Robyn Base

Waterfall
The transience of water is a recurring theme in Base’s work, examining water’s fluidity, its frozen form and its absence. The Waterfall video presents local fountains, filmed in slow motion, monochrome, and screened through an overlay of cracked glass. Emphasizing notions of voyage and return, molten shapes rise and fall, sinuously building into identifiable forms, then with a calm rhythm gradually breaking down and transforming into new familiar visions. The use of shattered glass as a veneer is a common thread, connecting previous projects. It distorts the images, adding fragility, and an otherworldly eeriness, while referencing a cracked Australian landscape.

(This video was originally screened in September 2015 at Cascade Gallery in Kehl, Germany, in collaboration with German sound artist, Michael Vierling, who composed an electro-percussive soundscape as a live performance.)

  • August 2016
  • Night Screen

SEVENTH an Artist Run Initiative


155 Gertrude Street
Fitzroy VIC 3065
AUSTRALIA

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Gallery Tuesday–Saturday 12–6pm
Night Screen Tuesday–Saturday 6pm–12am

SEVENTH acknowledges the traditional owners of the country where we work, the Wurundjeri and neighbours Boonwurrung people, and their continuing connection to land, sea and community. SEVENTH pays our respects to their Elders both past and present.