Double Vision, digital art screen in Double Bay
'Double Vision' is a digital public art project run by Woollahra Council. The digital screen, installed under the escalators to the Woollahra Library (Kiaora Place) in Double Bay features a range of varied video or other screen based artworks from different artists. Works displayed on the screen aims to engage and provide a point of difference to the public in this space.
TOPOGRAPHIES
Topography is the study and description of the physical features of an area or environment. Topographical terrains, whether factual, contested or imagined, are used by each artist in this series to explore the micro and macro perspective of our world and our existence.
Double Vision is currently screening works by Kristone Capistrano, Karen Lee, and Adam Sébire. These works will be on display until end of June 2025.
Image credit: For Nanay, By Kristone Capistrano
Artist: Kristone Capistrano
Title: For Nanay
Duration: 3.37 mins
Kristone Capistrano is a Sydney and Manila-based artist working across drawing, film, and community collaborations. His practice explores mortality, transience, and contemporary figuration, using paper as a metaphor for human skin and mark-making as a symbol of human touch, a vehicle for generosity and care. His durational, endurance-based video For Nanay reflects on loss, memory, and the Filipino tradition of sweeping as an act of devotion. Created after the sudden passing of his grandmother, the work enacts sweeping sand over a drawn portrait as a ritual of remembrance and mourning.
Image credit: One, By Karen Lee
Artist: Karen Lee
Title: One
Duration: 3 mins
Karen Lee is a Sydney-based artist specializing in concept-driven digital artworks leveraging abstraction, synaesthesia and resonance. Lee has recently been commissioned by several local councils and is a two-time Ravenswood Women's Art Prize finalist and most recently exhibited her work at Sydney’s South by Southwest.
'One' explores the ‘symbiotic tension’ between Earth and Moon, regarding, influencing and transforming each other in a single, dynamic system. This unity creates a balance in energy and influence which directly intersects with the Chinese philosophy of Yin and Yang, an eternal system of renewal where opposing energies work together to create harmony and balance.
Image credit: Iceberg care, By Adam Sébire
Artist: Adam Sébire
Title: Iceberg Care
Duration: 13.54 mins
Adam Sébire is an artist-filmmaker whose works focus on climate change and the Anthropocene. Having just opened a solo exhibition 1,200km from the North Pole in Svalbard’s civic art gallery, he found himself marooned for 18 months by Australia’s Covid-19 border closures; he’s now one of the Arctic’s 4-million human inhabitants.
Adam studied documentary filmmaking at the national film schools of Australia & Cuba, going on to direct documentaries for ABC & SBS TV Australia. His postgraduate artistic research explored how the vast yet largely imperceptible dimensions of the climate crisis present particular representational challenges for lens-based artists.
For more information on the public art project, or you would like to be involved, please email cultural@woollahra.nsw.gov.au or call 9391 7102.