Artist Statement ~ ~ ~
Sarah Byrne forges poetic inquiries with video, sound, installation, and performative screen space. Byrne initiates transgressive dialogues with sound and moving image materials to explore ambivalent considerations of contemporaneity and the psychological terrain of the screen. Sarah’s recent work embraces the incongruous and vacuous territory of our media landscape. Her practice situates itself as a sometimes unsettling discussion unpacking the complex nuances of contemporary media and the cultural and historical systems that shape it.
Bio ~ ~ ~
Sarah Byrne is an artist and performer currently based in Naarm/Melbourne. She is the past co-director of Brisbane artist-run-initiative inbetweenspaces, and video editor of VHS label Video Flex. Sarah recently completed an MFA with Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and currently fronts experimental improvisational outfit Sky Needle. She has exhibited and performed both nationwide and internationally.
Recent projects include: Light Box, MONA FOMA, Good Grief Studios, Hobart, 2021; Night Works, The Wandering Room, 2020; Networked, Outer Space, Brisbane, 2020; Asia Topa: HuRU-hARa, Melbourne, 2020; Negative Volumes: Danger Magic, Liquid Architecture, Firstdraft, Sydney, 2017; Island Salon, Cockatoo Island, Sydney, 2015; Experimenta: Recharge, Tele-Visions, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, 2015.