Visit FUMA to experience the wonder of Deborah Kellyโs video art ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐บ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด (2019) featuring in ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ด: ๐๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฐ ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ฏ๐บ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด is a vast, microscopic Eden teeming with deities born from the pages of old magazines and encyclopedias, creating an exquisite collage of grotesque beauty and new mythologies. ๐ธ๏ธ ๐
๐ Combining the divine, mundane and profane, these celestial creations animate a kaleidoscopic symbology that explores extinction and the climate crisis, the scars of colonialism, and the political shift to the right around the world, while simultaneously revelling in the persistence of pleasure, desire and life. Created at โcollage campโ at Bundanon on beautiful Yuin Country, this collaborative work is a poetic and urgent warning. ๐
Deborah Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown around Australia, and in the Biennales of Singapore, Sydney, Thessaloniki, TarraWarra and Venice. Her projects across media are concerned with lineages of representation, politics and history in public exchange, and practices of collectivity on small and large scale, both fleeting and durational. Her newest works experiment with models of sustained creative collaboration between strangers. Kellyโs moving image artworks have been shown around the world, in galleries, cinemas and projected onto rock formations, buildings and clouds.
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Artwork: Deborah Kelly
Two-channel digital animation, colour, sound
ACMI Collection
Collage figures: Joanne Albany, Alana Ambados, Kate Andrews, Justin Ashworth, Kathryn Bird, Karen Golland, Amanda Holt, Deborah Kelly, Kath Lim, Lex Lindsay, Megan Rushton, Rie Tamaoke, Anna Tregloan