honorable mention
Dida Sundet australia
title
Tales of Transformation
Dida works with a number of techniques to create her work, ranging from staged photography to sculpture and installation. Since 2007, Dida has devoted her artistic career to specialising in the art of light painting. Her constructed and meticulously staged photographs explore identity, displacement, trauma and canonical ways of storytelling.
Dida’s previous work situated the imagination as site for the construction of trans-identities and poetic realities.
Her work unites aspects from an extensive background in theatre, film and photography in both Norway and Australia. Dida’s image ‘3 Sitroner’ (3 lemons) was awarded 1st place in the category for Special Night Photography, non professional, in the International Photography Awards, 2013. Dida has exhibited widely in both Norway and Australia.
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entry description
Tales of Transformation explores the concept of actively displacing a selection of Norwegian myths and folktales in an Australian landscape, cultivating a space in-between two diverse cultures. These long exposure light paintings offers insight into traditional and emerging cultural patterns, allowing viewers to engage with meticulously constructed image worlds. The tales are transformed in translation from one cultural context to another and allowed to grow to see what remains, what is lost, what translates, if anything, and what is created when past, present and future is merged to re-form an idea of home.about the photographer
Dida Sundet is an award-winning fine art photographer and light painter from Norway, currently living in Wollongong, Australia. In 2020 she commenced her PhD with focus on re-coding the female experiences of sexual assault in visual art, specifically addressing the tradition of ‘heroic rape’ paintings based on Greek and Roman mythology. Her research connects with current sociopolitical debates around violence towards women and gender stereotypes and feminist countermedia pratices.Dida works with a number of techniques to create her work, ranging from staged photography to sculpture and installation. Since 2007, Dida has devoted her artistic career to specialising in the art of light painting. Her constructed and meticulously staged photographs explore identity, displacement, trauma and canonical ways of storytelling.
Dida’s previous work situated the imagination as site for the construction of trans-identities and poetic realities.
Her work unites aspects from an extensive background in theatre, film and photography in both Norway and Australia. Dida’s image ‘3 Sitroner’ (3 lemons) was awarded 1st place in the category for Special Night Photography, non professional, in the International Photography Awards, 2013. Dida has exhibited widely in both Norway and Australia.
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