Angelica Mesiti, The Rites of When 2024 (video still), 7-channel digital video installation, colour, sound, approx 30 min, collection of the artist, commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales for the Tank, 2024

Angelica Mesiti has created an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath Naala Badu, the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ north building.

A rich visual and sonic experience, Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When is a large-scale video and sound installation that reimagines collective and communal rituals in relation to seasonal cycles, at a time of environmental uncertainty and flux.