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.
MYTHOLOGIES
Meticulously choregraphed and lensed with a heightened, hyper-real precision, this beguiling animal encounter subverts the coolly seductive visual language of advertising while drawing on motifs from classical myths, folklore and art history.
Double Vision is currently screening a work by Petrina Hicks. This work will be on display until end of March 2025.
Image credit - Gloss :Petrina Hicks
Artist: Petrina Hicks
Title: Gloss, 2011
Medium: high-definition video, single channel, silent
Duration: 13 min
Petrina Hicks is an Australian artist based in Sydney, she creates large-scale photographs that draw from mythology, fables, and historical art imagery to re-frame the contemporary female experience.
Permeated with a sense of magical realism, animals and females often appear together to represent aspects of psyche and identity, alluding to the complexity of female identity and the sentience of animals. The porous boundaries between human and animal states and the affinity of females and animals are central to her work.
Petrina Hicks is represented by Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin.
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.