Courtesy: the artists and the Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, Booragul.

The Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie presents an exhibition of work by Monika Morgenstern, Marian Drew, Rebecca Najdowski and Ioulia Panoutsopoulos, in which the four contemporary artists working across various media probe the intersection of physical form and visual perception.

Central to their practices is the ever-present phenomena of light. In addition to being biologically fundamental to life on earth, it is through light that we perceive matter and time. Photomedia, the dominant modality used in this exhibition, imposes the capture and archive of its subject. Yet the precariousness of the medium to faithfully render matter is revealed.

The artists investigate new ways of experiencing nature and ourselves in relation to it, as we come to terms with the urgency of existential and environmental crises. Their artworks oscillate between and bring awareness to, the blurred boundaries of analogue and digital, of human and artificial intelligence, and of our real and virtual encounters.