Instructions for Mending the World

Harry Nankin’s Instructions for Mending the World at the Jewish Museum of Australia explores metamorphosis, repair and redemption, as depicted in a series of photographic films created using images of deep space. Nankin is a photographer, environmental artist and educator, who has spent more than forty years exploring the contested ethical, emotional and aesthetic meanings of the non-human world. His artistic style and the photographic techniques used in his work are reminiscent of the global ecological crisis, history and memory.