Launching Denise Martin’s current exhibition at the La Trobe University Visual Arts Centre, Tegan Lang, Cultural Development Officer with Mount Alexander Shire, captivated the audience with her poetic and insightful remarks.
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The deeply personal and intimate exhibition is "grounded in principles of experiential art” she said. "It is beautifully meditative. Its carefully composed visuals and audio combine to quickly impact the viewer. On a stormy afternoon alone in this gallery, the work quickly aligned my breathing with that of the babble of the swimmer, until my ears attuned to the many soundscapes within the films”.
Lang noted that the contemplative nature of Martin’s work reminded her of a recent comment by performance artist Marina Abromovic: “Our life is so fast. You have to make art slow. Your heart slows down, your thinking process slows down, it brings you into a different cosmos”.
