Exhibitions

Between Waves amplifies concepts related to light, time and vision – and the idea of shining a light on our times – expressed by the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung word ‘Yalingwa’. The exhibition variously explores the visible and invisible energy fields set in motion by these ideas, to illuminate interconnected shapeshifting ecologies within, beyond and between what can be seen.

Through a range of contemporary artforms including video, installation, poetry, projection, photography, painting, sculpture, sound, printmaking, and a digital commission, the invited artists have developed reflective and site-responsive projects which explore and experiment with the intersection of material and immaterial realms of knowledge and knowing.

Participating artists embrace the push and pull dynamics that flow beneath the surface, navigating ideas of presence and absence, the known and unknown, transgenerational and collective consciousness. Together, their reflective and site-responsive new commissions, traverse internal and external worlds, embracing the sensory and cyclical rhythms of light and sound, thinking, and feeling, listening and seeing, interwoven with ideas of material memory.

Between Waves is an exhibition developed by the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) touring nationally with NETS Victoria, curated by Dr Jessica Clark.

This project has been supported by Creative Victoria through the Yalingwa Visual Arts Initiative and the NETS Victoria Exhibition Development Fund; and the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program.

Artists
Maree Clarke, Dean Cross, Brad Darkson, Matthew Harris, James Howard, Hayley Millar Baker, Jazz Money, Mandy Quadrio, Cassie Sullivan, this mob

Curator: Dr Jessica Clark

Image: Mandy Quadrio, Not gone! 2023 (detail). Wire mesh, rotating mechanism, dimensions variable. Installation view, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne 2023. Commissioned by ACCA. Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Andrew Curtis.

Image Description: A wire mesh forms runs through the centre of the image. Shadows of the form appear to the left and the right, against a white and grey backdrop.