Aberration interrogates the aesthetics of COVID-19 television narrative as a way to reflect upon the uncertainty of the then unfolding present and the anxiety that accompanied it. Through manipulating television images from domestic screens the work represents the inward gaze of lock-down, alongside of an insistent gaze outward via the processing of a constant stream of media. In arresting and combining these ephemeral transmissions the work attends to questions of our collective visual memory of this experience and the affect of virtual witnessing.

This exhibition was held at the Huw Davies Gallery, PhotoAccess, Canberra between 30 July–29 August 2020. Photos care of PhotoAccess.

Teetering, Evidence, Spectre and Concealed, 2020, each image 84.1 cm x 118.9 cm

Teetering, Evidence, Spectre and Concealed, 2020, each image 84.1 cm x 118.9 cm

Blursday, 2020, 1:23 min video (no sound)