BEATA GEYER Unformed
Single-channel video 4min 7sec (looped) 2022
Installation - 35mm slides, light box, photographic print - Artefact Room, Mount Victoria Manor (Hotel Etico)
Image: Unformed III
abandoned in darkness
time passed
unforming
brought to day
light through
shines again
I moved into a house in the Blue Mountains over 10 years ago. The previous owners left some stuff behind, mainly rubbish to be thrown away. Underneath the house I found boxes, half-buried into the ground. Inside there were 35mm film transparencies, damaged, with film emulsion so badly deteriorated that the images were no longer recognisable. I cleaned the slides as much as could, put them into a screw jar, and filed under “found objects for later’, forgetting all about it….until now.
Beata Geyer is a visual artist and curator based in the Blue Mountains whose artistic practice encompasses a variety of media, from painting, sculpture, photography and video to large scale, site-specific installations, architectural interventions and public art projects. Beata graduated from the University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts with a Masters of Visual Arts, where she also attained BVA Honours (1st class). She previously studied Architecture and Urban Design at the Warsaw University of Technology, and studied Photography and Design at the City of Westminster College, London. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Europe, Middle East, USA and Australia, and worked on public art in commercial developments. She is a recipient of numerous awards, grants and residencies, and her work is held in private collections, nationally (including Artbank), and internationally.
