Susan Norrie
dal 21/7/2003 al 12/10/2003
Segnalato da
21/7/2003
Susan Norrie
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Undertow is simultaneously an overwhelming and deeply meditative video installation, one of the most ambitious that Susan Norrie has created, and the culmination of several years of experimentation and development in her art practice. Undertow portrays the world in a state of both beauty and terror, shuddering with natural and unnatural events which verge on the catastrophic.
Undertow
Undertow is simultaneously an overwhelming and deeply meditative video
installation, one of the most ambitious that Susan Norrie has created,
and the culmination of several years of experimentation and development
in her art practice. Undertow portrays the world in a state of both
beauty and terror, shuddering with natural and unnatural events which
verge on the catastrophic.
The viewer is immersed in images of ominous tempests, delicate spring
blossoms, bubbling mud pools, swirling clouds of dust, and scientific
experiments which manifestly cannot make sense of these phenomena. The
range and scale of images has a vertiginous and unsettling effect that
pulls at the viewer's unconscious.
Undertow is the second Clayton Utz Contemporary Art Project at the Art
Gallery of New South Wales and again their generous support allows the
exhibition of an ambitious installation by a highly regarded
contemporary artist. Undertow was commissioned by the Melbourne Festival
for the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2002.
Undertow is presented to coincide with the exhibition Susan Norrie:
notes from underground, concurrently on display at the Museum of
Contemporary Art.
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, , AU Australia