Inhale/Exhale, Sarah Rhodes, 2023, 11:30 minutes, single-channel digital video, colour, sound, editor Jessica Wallace
Inhale/Exhale draws parallels between the healing landscapes of Queenstown in Lutruwita/Tasmania and the experience of being in place. To inhale is to ingest the world around us, to become intimate with and forge a connection to place. To exhale is both an act of giving, and leaving behind, a trace of ourselves. In this mutual dialogue between person and place, breath in unison, we are a haunted landscape in recovery.
One of two video works created for the unsettling Queenstown exhibition for the Australia Pavilion, at the Venice Architecure Biennale 2023.
The works were made in response to each of the Queenstowns to convey how place is revealed in our inner life. Inhale/Exhale (2023, 11:30 mins), by Sarah Rhodes, draws parallels between the healing landscapes of Queenstown in Lutruwita/Tasmania and the experience of being in place. PERMEATE: mapping skin and tides of saturated resistance (2023, 7:38 mins), by Unbound Collective, inhabits the mangrove wetlands of Yarta Puulti, over which the Queenstown of Kaurna Yarta/Adelaide was built. The film examines the recent poisoning of mangroves by salt mining industry and the need for ongoing protection of Country. Projected on a wall 16m wide, these works envelop visitors, inviting an experience of embodied listening.
Inhale/Exhale, 16:9 version