Compression

This new installation work by Canberra-based Hannah Quinlivan responds firstly to the black summer with which the year 2020 began, the subsequent health and economic crisis, and the fissures they have riven in our collective mood.

After a year of grief and fear, the work asks its audience to take time to pause. To listen and hold close our ardent longing for the futures we once possessed but that dissolved into smoke, and to find the fortitude to care for each other through the uncertain future.