Jill Orr’s work spans performance, photography, video, and installation, and centres on issues of the psycho-social and environmental, where she draws on land and identities as they are shaped in, on and with the environment.
This exhibition reflects the power of a place that is the same location yet has subtle changes over time, much like the remnant colonial haunting that sits as a cultural palimpsest where ghosts of past and present are manifest in the images. These works are performances for the camera captured at different times but always as light emerges. The place is a billabong in the reaches of the Yarra River, the Birrarung, on the Banyule Flats, Wurundjeri Country, which serves as a metaphorical and literal site of historical memory.
In collaboration with photographer Christina Simons and printer Brian Gilkes, Pharos Editions.
Jill Orr, Same Place Different Time, Lady in the Swamp, 2025. Courtesy the artist and THIS IS NO FANTASY, Melbourne
THIS IS NO FANTASY
31 May to 28 June 2025
Melbourne
