For the next few months, come nightfall, mythical figures and hybrid forms will emerge from the shadows of the Abbotsford Convent grounds. | Ray Edgar
“Twilight is the time for shape-shifting,” says curator Kelli Alred. For the next few months, come nightfall, mythical figures and hybrid forms will emerge from the shadows of the Abbotsford Convent grounds. Magnificent trees and grand architecture are rendered suitably spooky through light and sound for Alred’s exhibitionA fox-faced figure clutching farm animals from the neighbouring children’s farm. An Icarus-like astronaut downed in the Convent’s bottom gardens.
“I don’t see myself as vermin, although I relate to [the fox’s] experience,” says Abdullah. “It’s a projection by other people. The fox is the interloper – the introduced species that’s here and present, but unwelcome.”If Abdullah shape-shifts between saintly figure and trickster fox, he is not the only one to draw on mythical figures. In a corner of the heritage gardens below Abdullah’s work, Lyndal Jones pays tribute to Icarus. Her tableau installationdepicts an astronaut lying prone.
The appropriateness of a nocturnal exhibition excites Cope: “There are lots of metaphors, stories and activities in Aboriginal cultures that only happen at night.”
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