‘Dark Desire’ explores Henson’s enduring fascination with darkness and light, within works that alternate between landscape and figure subjects. Presented in a completely blacked-out gallery, the exhibition will consider darkness as a means of altering perception and blurring the line between reality and the unconscious.
Henson’s moving representations of landscape transform natural rock formations into looming and silent sentinels. Shown together with images of waterfalls and clouds, they become timeless and ageless. By contrast, the prone young figures become all the more vulnerable and fragile. Cumulatively the different subjects occupy a space that is mythically dark and yet distinctively Australian.
Gippsland Art Gallery
Until 1 February, 2015
Victoria
Untitled NH-SH353-N33D, 2009/2010, archival inkjet pigment print, 127 x 180cm
Courtesy the artist, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, and Roslyn Oxley9, Sydney
