Exhibition dates: 26 September – 14 December 2014
Public forum: 10-5pm Friday 26 September
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Australian artist David Haines and curator Jasmin Stephens will feature at this year’s Kuandu Biennale, which launches on 26 September.
David Haines will present an installation titled “Recognition System”, comprising a suite of images using the specialised technique of Kirlian photography and a fragrance he has composed in his Aroma Studio. The photographs are of plants from the Wollemi Wilderness in the Australian Blue Mountains, a remote and mysterious region that shelters the elusive Wollemi Pine, a species known only through fossil records until it was discovered in 1994.
The photographs, with their connection to ‘spirit photography’, and the fragrance, which is suggestive of the damp earthy smell thrown up by the rain, are intended to evoke a range of associations – fantastical and grounded. Biennale visitors are invited to experience the earth’s energies and the ‘unseen forces’ that lie within and around us with all their senses.
The Biennale will include ten artists and ten curators from ten countries around the world, who will also participate in the forum that accompanies the exhibition. David Haines’s piece is curated by Asialink Arts curator Jasmin Stephens.