In December, Adelaide Festival Centre's Moving Image Program is exhibiting 'Summer Solstice' by Sally Parnis and 'ASCENSIO: AETERNA MULTIVERSE' by Liberté Grace on our King William Road digital screens.
Sally Parnis (SA), Summer Solstice, moving image, 5:00
Summer Solstice is an animation of an iPad drawing made over 15 hours from dawn to dusk on the longest day of the year. The drawing is made on the banks of the River Torrens, the other side of the bridge from Adelaide Festival Centre. ‘I made this drawing on the day of the summer solstice, beginning at dawn and ending at dusk, sitting on the shore of beautiful Karrawirra Pari. I am offering it as an animation so that you may experience this day unfolding in the same way I did.’ Sally Parnis
Sally is a mid-career artist living and working on Kaurna land, close to Karrawirra Pari. Sally’s art practice encompasses traditional painting and drawing, digital drawing and animation and is strongly rooted in observational drawing.
She contends that seeing is a cognitive act that drawing can explore in a way that differs greatly from photography. She wants to take the viewer with her on a contemplative journey where they explore and experience an act of seeing over time.
Summer Solstice is presented with support from Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation.
Liberté Grace (NSW), ASCENSIO: AETERNA MULTIVERSE, moving image, 5:33
ASCENSIO: AETERNA MULTIVERSE (2023) is a single-channel video work by Liberté Grace exploring timelessness and the fall of power through the enlightenment of our darkest histories.
What if time did not exist, and we could access everything that we are, were, and will become—before, during, and after birth—even death, and our eventual enlightenment?
In the realm of infinite potentials, a fictional persona called ASCENSIO explores the recesses of its infinite inner consciousness and soul, realising its soul's unlimited nature beyond time. Within its imagined inner universe are endless rooms of consciousness. Within them, a grand dance takes place in which many versions of itself, no matter their characteristics, are destined to fulfil their highest potential of wisdom, maturity, and ultimate resolution.
Within the universe of ASCENSIO, the colour gold represents the wisdom of the soul within—the potential for the total transmutation of humanity's darkest histories and archetypes into wisdom and pure light, through the absolute love and acceptance of the timeless self.
Liberté Grace is an Asian-Australian artist and auteur filmmaker who creates immersive works in the mediums of art video, drawing, installation, and photography. Her works have been screened and exhibited in cultural institutions in Australia, France, and Italy, including the Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel, the Art Gallery of NSW, and Times Square, New York.