Institute of Modern Art

11 Callum McGrath River Torrens 13–24 MARCH This work by Brisbane-based emerging artist Callum McGrath was filmed on the banks of the Torrens River in Adelaide, at the exact site where gay academic Dr George Duncan was murdered in 1972. Duncan’s alleged murder by three police officers—who were never charged—was a catalyst for homosexual law reform in Australia. McGrath uses his work to mediate his cultural inheritance of homosexual-male narratives, operating as a sombre reflection on the history of queer experience in Australia. Louise Bennett Light Between Our Oceans 5–28 JUNE Louise Bennett ’s Light Between Our Oceans focusses on the measurable and immeasurable space between ourselves and others, as well as the distance between the artist’s current and past experiences. Recorded in Peru, the camera lens becomes Bennett’s ears and eyes as she gazes across the South Pacific Ocean towards her homeland, Australia. Callum McGrath, River Torrens (film still), 2017, single projection 4:56 mins. 11