YVETTE HAMILTON Hyper - radial

Two-channel video installation, The Library, Mount Victoria Manor (Hotel Etico) 4mins 18secs (looped) 2019-2022

Photographic print

Hyper-radial is inspired by lighthouses and light-based semaphores, where light ‘speaks’, guides and protects. The immersive installation aims to highlight the symbiotic relationship between photography and the lighthouse, both materially and conceptually. Where a lighthouse throws light out into space to communicate in code, photography is a catcher of light, rendering light into a two-dimensional communication form.  The works depict the Bell Rock Lighthouse in Scotland, the oldest sea-washed lighthouse in the world which was constructed to protect boats from a dangerous shallow reef in the North Sea. Each video explores the communication potential of light, the ability of photography to capture light, and the ideas of proximity, distance and knowing where you are in the world – and the failure of images to line up to perception.

Yvette Hamilton is an Australian interdisciplinary artist and academic of Mauritian descent working on the unceded lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra people (Blue Mountains, NSW). Exploring the unseen and the unphotographable, at a time when everything is seen and photographed, her practice sits at the edges of the photographic medium and explores the way that it shapes human vision and its relationship to the real. She is Associate Lecturer in Photography and Moving Image at UNSW Art and Design and a current PhD candidate at the University of Sydney.

www.yvettehamilton.com @yvettehamilton