Step Change, 2021, Alexander Boynes, Mandy Martin, Tristen Parr
Pigment, acrylic, oil on linen, 230 x 1150cm, 3 Channel 4K video and stereo sound, 6'45'' duration, looped
Photo by Emma Fishwick
STEP CHANGE
ALEXANDER BOYNES, MANDY MARTIN, TRISTEN PARR
Pivot Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre
Opening 6pm Friday, 8th July
8th July - 21st August 2022
Originally commissioned by the the site-responsive art festival CROSSING 21 | Fremantle Biennale, Step Change is a large-scale painting, video and sound work that explores the urgent need to transition in the age of climate crisis. Using the site of the Kwinana Industrial Area located alongside Derbarl Nara (Cockburn Sound), WA, the work shifts between the real and the sublime, as the still becomes moving and the changing sonic atmospheres turn light to dark. Covid-19 has drawn our attention to the benefits of radical economic ‘degrowth’ and its benefits to environmental health. Step Change looks to the urgent need for attention to climate change and asks us what kind of habitable planet we are leaving to future generations.
Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 4pm until 21st August 2022 at Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen ACT.