MOMENTUM extends our heartfelt gratitude to Australian artist Kate McMillan for her generous donation to the MOMENTUM Collection. Paradise Falls I & II results from her PhD research into memory and forgetting. To learn more about the artist, and see both works in full, please follow the link to: MOMENTUM Collection

Paradise Falls I & II will be shown as part of the MOMENTUM Collection, with additional works surveying the first 3 years of MOMENTUM, at TRAFO Art Center in Szczecin, Poland from 14 December 2013 to 26 January 2014. To find out more click here: THRESHOLDS | TRAFO

Paradise Falls II follows a man as he rows towards the silhouette of a craggy island off the coast of Wadjemup/Rottnest. He appears and disappears from sight, finally lost to the inky black of the ocean. These characters are stand-ins for fractured and partial histories that disappear from focus, yet continue in our collective psyche as dark and haunting traumas. The films are like moving paintings, heavily referencing the romantic tradition of Germanic landscape painting, while also holding them in a critical eye as part of an enlightenment ideology that has helped us to forget. Through engaging with the viewing process we participate in a re-remembering, acknowledging the shady edges of things, but also baring witness to the beauty of sadness that is contrary to the horrors of forgetting history.