Detail: Daniel Boyd, born 1982, Cairns, Queensland, Kudjla/Gangalu people, Queensland, A darker shade of dark #1 – 4, 2012, Sydney, New South Wales, HD video, 16:9 with sound, 4-channel video installation, duration 20 minutes. Sound: Ryan Grieve. Image courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

Festival

A Darker Shade of Dark #1 – 4

9 Oct – 4 Dec 2015

Free
Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art

Tarnanthi Exhibition

A darker shade of dark #1 – 4 is an immersive video installation and sensory experience by Kudjla/Gangalu artist Daniel Boyd.

Boyd’s use of painted dots functions as a metaphor for lensing and the corrosive effects of time and memory. In A darker shade of dark #1 – 4, Boyd has shifted his focus to the exploratory world of astrophysics: dark matter, particle physics and indeterminate cosmologies. Using shimmering and shifting fields of animated dots, the four-channel, floor-to-ceiling projection reframes dark matter as a metaphor for comprehension – what cannot, is not and will not be seen.

A darker shade of dark #1 – 4 is an Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, University of South Australia, exhibition presented in association with the 2015 Adelaide Film Festival.

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