when: 28 June 2024 - 08 September 2024 | venue: UNSW Galleries | cost: Free | address: Corner of Oxford Street and Greens Road, Paddington NSW 2021 | website: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries | tickets: https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries/lillian-oneil-the-light-that-spills
published: 28 Jun 2024, 5 min read
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Lillian O'Neil makes collages about the human condition, using found imagery from pre‐digital books and magazines to short-circuit visual information, with bodies taking on peculiar hybrid characteristics, surfaces merging with print textures, and the junctures between body, architecture, day, night, earth and sky all disintegrating.
O'Neil's new body of large-format collages considers ideas about the self and a multiplicity of selves, or split selves, experienced during matrescence, a term coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael to describe the time of mother-becoming. A sense of unrest and overstimulation characterises this physical, hormonal, and emotional period. While O'Neil isn't interested in illustrating motherhood in a literal sense, her experiences of having two children during lockdown periods in rural Victoria inform her approach to imagining the body and the psychic space it inhabits during this period.
The exhibition title comes from Annie Ernaux's book Les Années (The Years) 2008. The writer uses descriptions of photographs to frame an account of her life and place with the larger narrative of French history and culture. Ernaux writes: 'The distance that separates past from present can be measured, perhaps, by the light that spills across the ground between shadows, slips over faces, outlines the folds of a dress-by the twilight clarity of a black-and-white photo, no matter what time it is taken.'
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Curated by José Da Silva
Commissioned for the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art: Inner Sanctum and with the support of the UNSW Galleries New Contemporaries Fund.
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Lillian O'Neil makes collages about the human condition, using found imagery from pre‐digital books and magazines to short-circuit visual information, with bodies taking on peculiar hybrid characteristics, surfaces merging with print textures, and the junctures between body, architecture, day, night, earth and sky all disintegrating.
O'Neil's new body of large-format collages considers ideas about the self and a multiplicity of selves, or split selves, experienced during matrescence, a term coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael to describe the time of mother-becoming. A sense of unrest and overstimulation characterises this physical, hormonal, and emotional period. While O'Neil isn't interested in illustrating motherhood in a literal sense, her experiences of having two children during lockdown periods in rural Victoria inform her approach to imagining the body and the psychic space it inhabits during this period.
The exhibition title comes from Annie Ernaux's book Les Années (The Years) 2008. The writer uses descriptions of photographs to frame an account of her life and place with the larger narrative of French history and culture. Ernaux writes: 'The distance that separates past from present can be measured, perhaps, by the light that spills across the ground between shadows, slips over faces, outlines the folds of a dress-by the twilight clarity of a black-and-white photo, no matter what time it is taken.'
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Curated by José Da Silva
Commissioned for the 18th Adelaide Biennial of Contemporary Art: Inner Sanctum and with the support of the UNSW Galleries New Contemporaries Fund.
Go see Lillian O'Neil: The light that spills across the ground 2024.
Lillian O'Neil: The light that spills across the ground 2024 is on 28 June 2024 - 08 September 2024. See start and end times below. Conveniently located in Paddington. Call '+61 2 8936 0888 for details. Visit their website at https://www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/unsw-galleries.
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