litoralis

Bringing together moving image, sculptural material and embodied perception, litoralis explores the ebbs and flows between material presence and immaterial experience. A 55” screen lies flat on the floor of a subterranean warehouse, presenting aerial footage of a shallow tidal channel between San Remo and Millowl (Phillip Island), on Bunurong Country, Victoria. Water courses across rippled sand, flowing and reversing in a continuous loop that dissolves any fixed sense of direction or time.

Rising behind the screen, a sheet of unpigmented latex descends from a wall alcove, pooling in folds like a shed skin. Its supple surface echoes the tidal formations beneath the water, creating a dialogue between the latex’s draped contours and the shifting patterns of the illuminated image.

By placing the screen horizontally, litoralis overturns the conventional relationship between viewer and moving image. Visitors approach and lean over the screen as though looking into a shallow pool, their downward gaze mirroring the aerial perspective of the drone. The perpetual ebb and flow of the illuminated water invites a corresponding rhythm in the body. As viewers become absorbed in the movement, their breathing may begin to synchronise with the tidal pulse, drawing them into an intimate, almost mesmerising encounter with the image.

Through this convergence of material, movement and bodily attention, litoralis transforms the act of looking into an experience of attunement. The work brings the rhythms of a distant tidal landscape into the viewer's immediate space, where distinctions between observation and participation, physical presence and perceived experience begin to soften.