10/5/2002
Forgetfulness and Thunder
24HR Art, Darwin
A Mixed-Media Installation by David LeMay. The installation explores the conjunction of memory, family and landscape. This new body of work grew out of the culture shock and heightened sense of cultural awareness undergone by the artist since moving to the Territory. The exhibition is an immersive experience featuring low-tech projections using overhead transparencies, wall mounted transparencies and other layered images.
A Mixed-Media Installation by David LeMay
David LeMay’s mesmerising
installation explores the conjunction
of memory, family and landscape.
This new body of work grew out of
the culture shock and heightened
sense of cultural awareness
undergone by the artist since moving to the Territory. The
exhibition is an immersive experience featuring low-tech
projections using overhead transparencies, wall mounted
transparencies and other layered images.
The works in Forgetfulness and Thunder represent a meld
of past and present where one image merges with the
other creating a multi faceted, ambiguous whole.
Incorporating the experience of landscape as the
substructure for the development of ideas the artist
explores nostalgia as well as referencing Paul Carter’s
notions of a migrant aesthetic.
The artists states: While living in the Territory certain
images from the past, from before I was born and not long
after, have become increasingly significant to me. The
reasons for this are varied but what is of interest here is
how they have filtered their way into my work that was
ostensibly concerned with landscape. As figurative
elements they internalise the reading of the landscape
while simultaneously the landscape externalises their
intimacy, projecting it, as it were, to the sublime limits of
the horizon. It is in this indeterminable space that the
exhibition, Forgetfulness and Thunder dwells.
24 HR Art - Northern Territory Centre for Contemporary Art
GPO Box 28 NT 0801 Darwin Australia