Magnesium Light is a video project investigating the events surrounding the Abu Ghraib photographs of 2006.
You and I
Viewers enter a darkened space showing images tracking over bodyscape fragments of the same male figure seen in the etching as a female figure touches this body with sexual caress. It appears to be a passionate love scene in the days leading up to the etching scene. The female voice-over, with its American accent, along with fragments of a uniform, subtly complicate this by suggesting it is the memory of a female soldier based somewhere in Iraq, as she sexually provokes a prisoner.
Hold Me
At the centre of the previous installation is a hollow black monolith. Looking down into its core, viewers see the previous scenes, but from the point of view of the man. The man’s voice-over can be heard through headphones. We watch and listen as he recalls his wife, and attempts to bury himself in memory.
- Overview
- Exhibition
- Credits
Project Director: Dennis Del Favero
Project Funding: Australia Council for the Arts
2009-2012
Two Channel DVD Video. 4 minutes. BW. Stereo.
Part 1: You and I
Part 2: Hold Me
- John Curtin Gallery, Perth, 2012
- University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane, 2011
- Galerie Marion Scharmann, Cologne, 2009
- Works on Paper, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, 2009
Producer, Director and Designer: Dennis Del Favero
Writer: Stephen Sewell
Composer: Kate Moore
Sound Designers: Tony MacGregor and Dennis Del Favero
Sound Engineer: Mark Don
Stylist and Designer: Karla Urizar
Voice-overs: Man: Josef Ber; Woman: Jennifer Vuletic
Actors: Man: Andrew Dalton; Woman: Joanne Cunningham
Produced by the iCinema, Centre for Interactive Cinema Research,
University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Co-Produced in association with Radio Eye, ABC Radio National.
Assisted by the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney.