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Details
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- three channel video installation, colour, sound, deck chairs, relective black Perspex wall-cladding, sound baffling squares, sand
- Edition
- 1/5
- Dimensions
- display dimensions variable; duration: 00:48:30 min; aspect ratio: 4:3
- Credit
- Gift of Brian and Gene Sherman 2021. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 49.2021.a-e
- Copyright
- © Mikhael Subotzky
- Artist information
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Mikhael Subotzky
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About
Mikhail Subotzky’s complex three channel video installation WYE was commissioned by the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in 2016. The work examines the human impact of colonisation and the historical links between Britain, South Africa and Australia through a narrative spanning time and space, told from the perspectives of three fictional characters: Craig Hare, a present-day light-house keeper, James T. Lethbridge, a colonial settler in 1820, and Feio, an Australian psycho-anthropologist from the future. Three short films, titled Feio, Hare and Lethbridge, were shown simultaneously on separate screens in a purpose-built sound space. The floor was covered with sand, contributing to an immersive environment that echoes the coastal location featured in each of the films.