‘Force Majeure’ presents a compelling video installation by Sydney-born artist Gabriella Hirst currently living in Berlin, exploring landscape, atmosphere and weather. The artist embarked on a six-month project on the Island of Rügen, northern Germany where 19th-century Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich once worked. Challenged by the circumstances of difficult weather she filmed her attempts at painting a representational seascape, while enduring
the conditions, trying to eliminate the buffer zone between the destructive force and the creative act.
Gabriella Hirst, video still from Force Majeure, 2015-2016. Courtesy the artist and Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Sydney
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Until 21 May, 2017
Sydney
