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Up Close: Angelica Mesiti

Up Close: Angelica Mesiti
Installation view of ANGELICA MESITI’s The Rites of When, 2024, seven-channel digital video installation, color, and sound: 30 min, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Sydney, 2024. Courtesy the artist and AGNSW.

How might a secular, industrialized society reconceive its relationship to the Earth? This concern animated Angelica Mesiti’s latest multimedia project, The Rites of When (2024), commissioned for the underground Tank space of the Naala Badu building at Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales.