Take in two bold, contemporary exhibitions at Immersive Light and Art
Founded in 2021, Immersive Light and Art organisation is aptly located in Light Square. The venue is partly a gallery, event space and restaurant, but wholly a space to immerse yourself in works by traditional and digital artists, performers and musicians. Behind the 150-year-old façade, two exciting new exhibitions invite visitors forth with twin calls to action and to question.
A call to question: Deaf in One Eye
As a part of South Australia’s Living Artists Festival, Deaf in One Eye was created by Adelaide-born, award-winning artist Matthew Quick. Inspired by Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian, this exhibition interrogates how value is constructed in the contemporary art world. “This body of work considers value as something assigned rather than inherent,” reads Quick’s exhibition statement. “Each work asks the same underlying question from a different direction: who decides what is worth preserving, celebrating or believing?”
Rather than a critique of contemporary art, these paintings and sculptures are brought together to provoke and challenge, examining systems that produce cultural authority. Alongside Quick’s canvases, visitors can immerse themselves in a digital installation from acclaimed local studio, Monkeystack. Drawing on motifs from Quick’s earlier works, these animations provide a doorway into Quick’s ideas, allowing visitors to experience his practice in a new dimension.
Deaf in One Eye runs from the 6th to the 29th of August, 2026.
A call to action: Art for Takayna
Takanya, located in Tasmania, is a place where ancient landscapes have evolved over millennia. Home to Australia’s largest temperate rainforest, the site holds deep cultural significance for Aboriginal Australians and a critical refuge for endangered wildlife. Yet, it is under threat from mining and logging.
This exhibition brings together a powerful collection of works spanning photography, painting, film and more, created by artists across Australia as a part of the Bob Brown Foundation’s annual residency. Together, they create a visceral reminder of what is at stake, and what we stand to lose.
Following record crowds in Hobart, Art for Takayna will premiere in Adelaide from late September, as a part of our state’s Nature Festival. Audiences here can experience a brand-new, immersive film of Takayna, created exclusively by the Bob Brown Foundation for ILA’s one-of-a-kind studio. Thanks to 110 square metres of LED screens, the forest will wrap around visitors to provide an ancient welcome home. The experience is completed with a film of Adelaide artist Dave McEvoy, improvising on a grand piano directly to the forest as it awakens at dawn.
Art for Takayna runs from the 18th of September to the 10th of October, 2026.
Immersive Light and Art
Level 1, 63 Light Square, Adelaide
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