Part of NIGHT MOVES – exploring what we keep hidden in our darkest corners.
About
Step into a shadowy environment where light reveals, reflects, and deceives. In this immersive installation, Kuweni Dias Mendis and Grant x Wilkes create a sensory experience that draws on the mechanics of optics, testing what it means to see and be seen. Mirrors fracture perspective, screens pulse gently with shifting images, and handmade objects anchor the space with material presence. Light becomes both instrument and subject; unsettling the boundary between observer and observed.
The collaboration brings together Dias Mendis’ commitment to natural materials and elemental processes with Grant x Wilkes’ ongoing interrogation of image-making across analogue and digital forms. United by a shared dedication to process, their work creates a rich and intimate space for audiences to navigate their own role in the image.
Building on their award-winning collaboration (Metro Arts Experimental Portraiture Prize, 2025 Brisbane Portrait Prize), this exhibition extends this collaboration into a third dimension of experimentation with representation, materiality, and the unstable nature of images.
“(In)Sight invites people into an environment where seeing becomes active rather than passive. The work shifts as you move through it – reflections change, images fragment, light behaves unexpectedly. It is immersive, intimate and slightly disorienting, asking audiences to notice how perception is shaped by position, attention and expectation.”
