Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition Featured Artist 2018.

Photo by: Lee Walter

XX (why? why?) combines moving image and sound into a sculptural form to evoke a sense of bodily presence. Keeping with the lineage of feminist art, Kenning uses her own body to examine the physical self. In this work, the artist utilises the repeated gesture creating an endless performance. The body appears as though contained within the walls of the box, and converting the moving image from a flat surface to a three-dimensional form inhabiting the space. The rhythmic sound that echoes from the interior of the work further expands this sense of presence.