Opens on Aug 2 until Aug 24, 2025
Downstairs |
Beata Geyer
Swag
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Single swag
2.1 x 0.9 x 0.8 m
2025
This installation explores home as a transient, unsettled condition. The swag, recently travelled thousands of kilometres across Australia, carries physical and symbolic traces of movement, endurance, and isolation.
Historically associated with travelling labour and self-reliance, it occupies a loaded space within cultural memory, evoking both romanticised independence and the realities of displacement.
Within the gallery, the swag stands as a quiet marker of lived experience, resisting nostalgia while inviting reflection on what it means to carry one’s shelter. It lingers in the space between arrival and departure, questioning how ideas of home evolve across time, landscape and circumstance.
Historically associated with travelling labour and self-reliance, it occupies a loaded space within cultural memory, evoking both romanticised independence and the realities of displacement.
Within the gallery, the swag stands as a quiet marker of lived experience, resisting nostalgia while inviting reflection on what it means to carry one’s shelter. It lingers in the space between arrival and departure, questioning how ideas of home evolve across time, landscape and circumstance.
Beata Geyer is a visual artist and curator born in Warsaw, Poland and based in the Blue Mountains. Her artistic practice encompasses a variety of media, from painting, sculpture, photography and video to large scale, site-specific installations, architectural interventions and public art projects. Colour plays a fundamental role in her work, acting as a key element in shaping perception and meaning. Her practice engages with space, materiality, and transformation, exploring the dynamic interplay between form, environment and colour.
Artist profile
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photo: Adam Geyer
