Eight

Pascale Bardos

1 Feb–30 Apr 2021

Pascale Bardos, Eight, 2021, digital moving image, 35:28 min. Courtesy of the artist.

The artist would like to thank Kathy Bardos.

What does it mean

to watch the changing of the light?

To be still enough

for long enough

to bear witness to the Earth

circling the Sun.

All that wildfire

splitting

into something soft.

No focal point no land

just bright air breaking over us.

I can taste the sea – endlessly watching.

A forever moment

between this self and everything else.

Feel the cliff become edgeless.

Till there is no between.

And we too are the splendour.

Find your breath.

Hover there drink the light.

Bridie Lunney, 2021.

Kat Clarke, Sacred Firelight. Acrylic on canvas. Courtesy the artist.

Stevie Graymore, Wandering Light. Courtesy the artist.

Kat Clarke, Creation in the Stars. Lightbox. Courtesy the artist.

Kat Clarke, Trees of Light. Digital image, 15 x 20cm | Courtesy the artist.

Adam Sutardy, Having Been, 2020. Digital image, 15 x 20cm | Courtesy the artist.

Online, Exhibition, Satellite

Overview

Referencing the multiple locations of the project, Satellite is a screen-based public art project that exists across multiple public locations in Melbourne (AUS), Sydney (AUS) and Auckland (NZ) simultaneously. The project examines notions of the public space, specifically the public square, and what it means for art to occupy these spaces and connect physically disparate audiences through a collective experience.

Acknowledgment

This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.

Biographies

Pascale Bardos’ practice is characterised by a dualism in which empirical research and intuition coexist- developed through her enquiry of sensation and experience. Bardos investigates properties of matter (lightness, translucence, fluidity) and physical phenomena (reflection, perspective, balance) to form her methodologies. Creating installations, immersive environments and sculptures, she orchestrates a sensory experience of her surroundings allowing the physical properties of space, colour and light to guide the final work.

Curators

Bridie Lunney Bridie Lunney develops her works in relation to the site of presentation, engaging the given context, physical conditions, and poetics. Combining practices of architectural interventions, sculpture, and durational performance, Lunney acknowledges the body as a conduit between our psychological selves and the physical world. She has exhibited extensively including at the TarraWarra Biennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne International Arts Festival, Artspace and Performance Space. She has been an artist in residence and exhibited in Chile, Saudi Arabia, and Japan.She is currently a Lecturer in Sculpture at the National Art School, Sydney, and an Advisor to Blindside gallery, Melbourne.