Chandra + Stewart : Dark Pacific Sun

16 Oct-22 Nov 2014

Overview

Mohini Chandra and Christopher Stewart’s new collaborative work Dark Pacific Sun articulates the Pacific as a site of edenic fantasy. In this collection of photographs and moving images an ocean laps a crimson island, black fireworks explode in a white night sky and a submarine surfaces in a graphite sea. To emphasize the dialectic between beauty and fear and the vastness of the Pacific, where day and night occur simultaneously at different geographic points, Chandra+Stewart use the metaphor of the negative, or inversion. In this work what is light becomes dark and what is dark becomes light.