Ophelia Bakowski
Unseen Unheard Unknown
13
January 2022
13
Jan
2022
4
Feb 2022
Gallery 1
Unseen Unheard Unknown
Ophelia Bakowski
13
January 2022
13
January
2022
4
February 2022
Gallery 1
‘It was laid down at the start that the work was to be done ‘unseen, unheard and unknown’. My anonymity was to be preserved. When the task is finished I shall hand the account to my Master for use at Her absolute discretion.’Unseen Unheard Unknown repositions experiences I had surrounding a prominent cult that inhabited the Dandenong Ranges throughout the late 1900s into contexts of performativity and the ambiguity and mutation of retold memories. It is a story about magick, syncronicities and the third choice. Over the course of several mettings during 2018 I met with anonymous, who towards the end of our time together gifted me a painting while on the premises of SEVENTH Gallery in the Gertrude St days. The painting was, according to anonymous, a portrait of me passed down by extraterrestrials. Later in the preceding months, energised through the power of psychedelics, a ‘presence’ tried to remove my spirit from the body I inhabit.
Exhibition documented by Aaron Rees.
‘It was laid down at the start that the work was to be done ‘unseen, unheard and unknown’. My anonymity was to be preserved. When the task is finished I shall hand the account to my Master for use at Her absolute discretion.’Unseen Unheard Unknown repositions experiences I had surrounding a prominent cult that inhabited the Dandenong Ranges throughout the late 1900s into contexts of performativity and the ambiguity and mutation of retold memories. It is a story about magick, syncronicities and the third choice. Over the course of several mettings during 2018 I met with anonymous, who towards the end of our time together gifted me a painting while on the premises of SEVENTH Gallery in the Gertrude St days. The painting was, according to anonymous, a portrait of me passed down by extraterrestrials. Later in the preceding months, energised through the power of psychedelics, a ‘presence’ tried to remove my spirit from the body I inhabit.
Ophelia Bakowski
Ophelia Bakowski was born in Melbourne/Birraranga (1996). Their practice uses performance, image, sound and installation, to explore the inherent fluidity and inter-connectivity of Nature and non-binary identity. Through experiences of hardship and trauma, states of transcendence and enlightenment allow for a cosmic communion with the sacred and unknown self, as pain becomes pleasure. The rituals performed in their work, become a form of healing and celebration of selfhood.