How do we negotiate our relationship with the confronting and ongoing reality of climate change?
Between Presumption and Melancholy, shown at PhotoAccess Gallery in Canberra in 2023, was an exhibition of three video installations exploring this existential question. My aim was to create space for viewers to process and engage with their emotions related to climate grief.
The works merged meditative imagery with personal narratives shared by women in the wake of Australia’s Black Summer. Voices featured were Rhian Williams, Sarah Bachelard and Tess Horwitz. For more, read the exhibition catalogue essay by curator Gabrielle Hall-Lomax here.
An earlier video work, featuring Kate Bulter, was shown at the Goulburn Regional Gallery as a finalist screen-based piece in the 2022 Goulburn Art Award.
Hassan’s exhibition is framed as women discussing and processing their often traumatic fire experiences as well as their grief at the massive biodiversity loss…
Hassan’s visuals aptly support introspection, reflection and the heartfelt audio discussions that complement the overall exhibition.
Hassan’s practice reverberates personally. - CON BOEKEL, Review, Canberra City News
"It felt like the end of the world", with Rhiân Williams. Video still from the video series Body and Breath: Remembering Black Summer, 2021-23. Stereo channel, 1920 x 1080, H264, 30 FPS, duration: 4:50”. Production assistance: Oliver Martin. Watch the video, via Youtube using this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD9KrOZLw50
"Grace comes to meet us in the midst of all of this", with Sarah Bachelard. Video still from the video series Body and Breath: Remembering Black Summer, 2021-23. Stereo channel, 1920 x 1080, H264, 30 FPS, duration: 6:01”. Production assistance by Oliver Martin.
"The whole world felt like a dream", with Tess Horwitz. Video still from the video series Body and Breath: Remembering Black Summer, 2021-23. Stereo channel, 1920 x 1080, H264, 30 FP, duration: 4:17”. Production assistance by Oliver Martin.
Gallery installation view, care of PhotoAccess, Huw Davies Gallery, Canberra.
Installation view, Huw Davies Gallery, PhotoAccess.
Installation view, Huw Davies Gallery, PhotoAccess.
Installation view, Huw Davies Gallery, PhotoAccess.