Louise Bennett‘s Light Between Our Oceans focuses on the measurable and immeasurable space between ourselves and others, as well as the distance between the artist’s current and past experiences. Recorded in Peru, the camera lens becomes Bennett’s ears and eyes as she gazes across the South Pacific Ocean towards her homeland, Australia.
The work is on display in the IMA Screening Room 5–28 June 2018.
The IMA is pleased to present Light Between Our Oceans as part of the 2018 Green Screen program. Presented in partnership with the Queensland Film Festival, the IMA’s Green Screen project focusses on presenting moving image works with a connection to Queensland.
Biography
Louise Bennett holds a BFA with honours from the Queensland University of Technology. Recently she exhibited in the Watou Kunstenfestival in Belgium, and the historic site of Barranco’s Funicular in Peru. Bennett was awarded the Brisbane City Council Lord Mayor’s Young and Emerging Artist Fellowship 2016, and the Media Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) Artist in Residence Award in 2015. She has exhibited in solo exhibitions in Brisbane with Media Art Asia Pacific (MAAP), David Pestorious Projects, Boxcopy; and the Ionion Centre for Culture & Art in Greece. Bennett is also a co-director of the Brisbane artist run initiative Accidentally Annie Street Space.
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Image: Louise Bennett, ‘Light Between Our Oceans’, 2017, Installation view: Bus Projects Melbourne, 2017.
