Zanny Begg’s These Stories Will be Different brings together three of the artist’s most significant video installations that explore contested histories. The City of Ladies (with Elise McLeod), 2017, The Beehive, 2018, and Stories of Kannagi, 2019, reimagine a medieval feminist utopia, probe the unsolved murder of a high-profile anti-gentrification campaigner, and explore the connections between love, loss, and language in diasporic communities. Drawing on ancient literary traditions, non-linear timeframes, and computer-generated re-sequencing, these works challenge the politics of storytelling and invite us to see the world differently.
Zanny Begg (co-directed with Elise McLeod), The City of Ladies (still), 2017. Courtesy the artist and Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
9 December 2022 to 25 January 2023
Hobart
