Virginia Hilyard, an Australian filmmaker and screen artist, explores film, video, and sound, often focusing on space, site-specific contexts, and installations. Her background in architecture and sculpture influences her creative approach.
1999 Womanifesto II:
The Second International Women’s Art Exchange
Video Installation by Varsha Nair and Virginia Hilyard
You can view photographs of the work by Varsha Nair and Virginia Hilyard, where a video projector and screen are horizontally stretched over a pond, on Asia Art Archive.
If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed.
(Extract from Birdwings by Jelaluddin Rumi)
The movement between strength and vulnerability is traversed in slow motion a nd is left open to interpretation within and beyond the frame. Through the depiction of a massage, this work talks of an imbalance, of tensions that lurk beneath the skin and that are disguised in a culture driven by surface and beauty. This video installation was set up opposite Wat Po, a Thai Budd hist temple which houses a massage school.