In this immersive installation, Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes create a sensory experience that draws on the mechanics of optics, testing what it means to see and be seen. Mirrors fracture perspective, screens pulse gently with shifting images, and handmade objects anchor the space with material presence. Light becomes both instrument and subject; unsettling the boundary between observer and observed.

The collaboration brings together Dias Mendis’ commitment to natural materials and elemental processes with Grant x Wilkes’ ongoing interrogation of image-making across analogue and digital forms. United by a shared dedication to process, their work creates a rich and intimate space for audiences to navigate their own role in the image.

Building on their award-winning collaboration at the 2025 Brisbane Portrait Prize, this exhibition extends a practice recognised for its inventive approach to representation, materiality, and the unstable nature of images.