Diana Baker Smith
Penrith Regional Gallery, Home of the Lewers Bequest
Curated by Nina Stromqvist
11 May - 4 August 2024

“Archives, often incomplete with gaps and silences, offer evidence for historians' linear arguments. But expanding the archive's meaning to various forms can reshape our approach to history and memory. Artist Diana Baker Smith explores this, using performance to access and embody memories though site-specific responses.

This Place Where They Dwell, 2024 is a major new commission by Baker Smith and is filmed and presented in Modernist artist Margo Lewers' former home, now the Penrith Regional Gallery. The 4-channel video installation unpacks traces of Lewers’ life, using performance and sound in collaboration with choreographer and performer Lizzie Thomson and composer and soprano Jane Sheldon.” Nina Stromqvist

Images: Diana Baker Smith, This Place Where They Dwell, 2024 Penrith Regional Art Gallery, Home of the Lewers Bequest, installation view. Photographer: Katherine Lu