Project Description
photo: Craig Walsh
photo: Craig Walsh
photo: Craig Walsh
photo: Craig Walsh
photo: Craig Walsh
photo: Craig Walsh
photo: Craig Walsh
photo: Craig Walsh
Project Description
duration 3 x 10 mins, looped
Commissioned by Transport for New South Wales
Within Reach is site-responsive work that presents a formal fusion of human forms and native flora, rising, falling and clustering within a vast landscape. While the movement, repetition and form of these figures were designed to accentuate the transient functionality of the Wynscreen site, their presence establishes both a stark contrast and surreal relationship to natural and constructed spaces. The provocative gestures of the hybrid ‘living’ forms invite the viewer to consider our fundamental human need to ‘connect’, not only to others but also to the environments we occupy. Figures at times do connect and build communities or landscapes, highlighting the random actions that often enable such relationships. The ambiguity of the work aims to draw the viewer into subtly shifting and contemplative frames of reference.
About Wynscreen
Transport for NSW has created a unique opportunity for media art to light up a public meeting place in the most compelling way. Some of Australia’s most captivating moving image art will be showcased on this distinctively-shaped screen located on the mezzanine level of Wynyard Station’s Clarence Street entrance.
Wynscreen facts
- Over 20 metres wide
- Almost three metres high
- On show for over 30,000 passersby every day
Purpose-designed and dedicated as a public art site, Wynscreen video art will explore themes of time, travel and place through our Indigenous history, multicultural personality, and creative imaginations. It engages with the ways our past has shaped who we are, where we are and what we may become.
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