Amos Gebhardt brings an experienced knowledge of cinematography to the field of video installation…. In the new work for the Adelaide Biennial, Divided Worlds, Gebhardt immerses the viewer in a square room with four large projections. Each screen holds a familiar Australian landscape: a salt lake, a rock formation, a sandy desert and a waterfall in a forest. The images meet one another along matching horizon lines. This allows for a continuum in both time and place, which is emphasised by the choreographed sequences of ten dancers in each environment. Forty individuals from diverse backgrounds have been chosen to expand normative ideas of the body. The ritual dance movements that unfold on screen amongst the ensemble have been scripted by Gebhardt to represent the becoming and decline of the human in and of the natural world.
ANNE MARSH

The artist gratefully acknowledges that Evanescence has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body with generous support from The Felix Foundation and Chunky Move

Amos Gebhardt, Evanescence, 2018, 4 channel video artwork, sound, 34 minutes.