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HAINES & HINTERDING

‘Speed of Light’

31.10.26 - 21.11.26

Speed of Light unfolds within a lineage of contemporary art that treats energy, systems and material behaviour as aesthetic forces in their own right. Combining solar technology, particle detection, fractured materials and planetary clocks, Haines and Hinterding examine environmental instability, digital economies and the political dimensions of energy, perception and change.

This ambitious exhibition transforms the SYRUP warehouse into an energy incubator – one that both interrogates our current material dimension as well as our political and aesthetic realities. This is the artists first solo show with the Gallery as represented artists.

ARTIST TALKS SATURDAY NOV 21 2pm

Joyce Hinterding and David Haines will join curator Elizabeth Reidy and guest in conversation on Saturday November 21 to discuss the ideas and influences in their work.

This is a unique opportunity to hear from both these artists.

Refreshments provided.

RSVP not required

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

David Haines and Joyce Hinterding have worked both collaboratively and independently for more than two decades, exploring the unseen forces that shape our lived experience. Their multidisciplinary practice which is celebrated for both artistic excellence and a remarkable creative intelligence ,spanning antennae, scent, photography, drawing, and performative actions, using these materials and methods to reveal phenomena that usually escape perception. By transforming their initial scientific investigations into refined, poetic provocations, Haines & Hinterding challenge the dominance of vision—disrupting the assumptions of ocularcentrism and inviting audiences to sense the world differently.

Their large-scale artworks often aim to reveal what is unseen and unheard, drawing on both Hinterding’s investigations into energetic forces and Haines’ interest in the intersection of hallucination and the environment.

Haines and Hinterding live and work in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney on Darug and Gundengurra Country. They have both held positions as Senior lecturers at Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney. The MCA featured their work in the survey exhibition Energies Haines & Hinterding, and in 2016 they produced an extensive monograph exhibition titled Résonances Magnétiques – La Panacée, Montpellier, France.