- This event has passed.
Dr Lisa Anderson: Beguiling
26 November 2023 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm AEDT
Beguiling is a multimedia exhibition, including both images and videos, by internationally renowned Australian artist Dr Lisa Anderson which explores the parallel elements of beauty and destruction through the Anthropocene.
The photographs, captured over many years including from visits to the Artic and Antarctic, have been altered through scarring with wax and burns, customised infrared filters and different printing surfaces, along with image twinning to suggest themes of eternity and disaster warning.
The photographs hint at the measures we use in the Doomsday Clock made by scientists to demonstrate human impacts on Earth, which is now set at 90 seconds to midnight.
The videos rely strongly on the images and rhythms of folklore and myth that are used across cultures to explain the world of nature, as earth, fire and air are anthropomorphized as dangerous and beautiful, enticing, alluring and as a signal of destruction.
Related Events
Reader Survey
Take the Limelight survey
Share your feedback and you could win an Australian Digital Concert Hall gift voucher.
Season Preview
Explore the 2024 season
Our specialist writers analyse this year’s offerings in theatres and concert halls.
What’s On
Explore the online calendar
Find out what’s happening this week and add your own events to our free online calendar.
Subscribe
Explore subscriptions
Subscribe to Limelight from $4 per month and save up to 50% when you subscribe for longer.