Curated Exhibition, Event or Festival

Crepusculum

SEAN LOWRY, Kim Donaldson

Project 8 Gallery | Published : 2024

Abstract

The Latin noun "crepusculum," which denotes twilight and transitional thresholds between day and night, also offers a compelling metaphorical framework for exploring fluidity and relational complexity in art. For artists, crepuscular zones can be fertile grounds for embodying tension and interplay, implicitly critiquing rigid categorisations and marking interstitial processes. In this exhibition, crepuscularity is repurposed to reach beyond established visual dichotomies to quietly intimate a complex set of entangled material, social, historical, philosophical and political domains. In contemporary art, crepuscularity might signal an approach that emphasise physical and perceptual thresho..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Grants

Awarded by Cura8 for Project8


Funding Acknowledgements

Cura8 for Project8;GL017192;TS26568