Satellite of Love: Perspectives from Bunjil Reserve, installation view, Eltham Library Community Gallery. Mapping Meditation I 2020, Pigment print on dibond. Photo: Samara Clifford for Anna Farago 75 x 75 cm. Seating circle cushion 2021, Botanical and commercial dyed fabric, wool, cotton, linen, polyester, worn clothing. 45 x 120 x 10 cm. Sharing Contemplation 2020, Botanically dyed linen and cotton, worn shirts 375 x 375 cm Quiet Observer 2021, Video8 min 48 sec. Co-direction Anna Farago & Kirsten Mallyon, Production John Cherry & Kirsten Mallyon, Tapestry Media. Filmed in Bunjil Reserve on 29 November, 2020. During Sound and Silence: Meditation in Nature Walk, Led by Kuo Yong Kooi Including installation of artwork Sharing Contemplation. Supported by Nillumbik Council Arts & Culture & Community Fund Support Grants 2020

Satellite of Love: Perspectives from Bunjil Reserve

29 January - 14 March 2021
Eltham Library Community Gallery

Paradoxa Collective: Penelope Aitken, Anna Farago, Siri Hayes, Susan Wirth

Paradoxa Collective’s first public exhibition created in response to ‘Walking, Talking, Listening, Learning’ in Bunjil Reserve, Panton Hill, 2019-20

Anna Farago’s large, Sharing Contemplation, a patchwork made of botanically dyed fabric and worn shirts, hovers over the exhibition space. It acts as a soft marker in honour of community, recognising the ongoing need for discussion and contemplation. These themes are extended within the related video work Quiet Observer, co-directed and produced with Tapestry Media. The video narrates via images, nature sounds and few words, the Sound and Silence walk organised by Paradoxa Collective in November 2020, as well as the patchwork hanging in the trees. Another work by Farago, Mapping Meditation I, is a performative photograph that captures the artist and Eltham Yoga teacher Kuo Yong Kooi seated on another of Farago’s large textiles. Facing each other they are framed within an octagon giving thanks to the power of the natural environment.