Gemma Messih is an emerging artist from Sydney, Australia. Their cross-disciplinary practice explores our relationship to, interaction with and understanding of the natural world. Aiming to slow down human perception and our experience of environmental phenomena, ideas of curiosity are investigated through open experimentation, both with ideas and the raw potential of materials. Gemma studied a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, majoring in Photomedia at The College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
One sunset a day just isn’t enough. In our mediated environment, where points of view outnumber eyes to view them, it seems there is no longer one nature, just an excess of human ones. Drawing together national and international artists working at the edges of photomedia, video and installation, The Big Picture considers our experience of the sublime amid the visual excess and digital fragmentation that characterise our everyday. Using an array of materials and media, from vast online image banks to dusty photo archives, time slice technology to unwanted CRT TVs, the artists in The Big Picture present an accumulation of details in order to broaden our outlook on nature. Collectively they ask, if a picture speaks a thousand words, what can a thousand pictures reveal?
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