Increasingly our physical disposition in the 21st century is screen-focused and frontal. We continue to favour vision as central in our sensory hierarchy. Oculus Penumbra, is an offering to not only see with our eyes but also with our other senses, to be drawn in through what could be a tunnel or a wormhole, perhaps towards another time or place. The work is conceived as a portal into the unknown, into the shadow, a call to the void. The viewer is invited to enter a strangely familiar but uncanny world, evoking the imaginal and activating subtle and not-so subtle sensorial triggers.

Installation artist and conjurer Juliana Potts has a keen interest in the architectural, in scale, form and materiality, creating immersive environments that speak of an ‘other worldliness’, often creating structures out of simple everyday materials - garage bags, irrigation pipe, cables ties, and in doing so elevates the status of these materials.

This work was presented for Artstate 2017 Arts Program

Images | Katelyn-Jane Dunn