Sat, 26 July
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Elena Betros López | as light through water | Berninneit Art Gallery
[Art Exhibition] Elena Betros López | as light through water Berninneit Art Gallery 26 July – 7 September 2025 Mon–Fri: 9.30am – 5pm | Weekends: 10am – 4pm Berninneit, 91-97 Thompson Ave, Cowes VIC 3922, Australia Free Entry
Details
26 July 2025, 10:00 am – 07 Sept 2025, 5:00 pm
Berninneit, 91-97 Thompson Ave, Cowes VIC 3922, Australia
Bass Coast Shire Council Presents:
as light through water by Elena Betros López
Berninneit Art Gallery
26 July – 7 September 2025
Free Entry
About the Exhibition
As light through water, a solo exhibition by Narrm (Melbourne) artist and poet Elena Betros López, presents a multiscreen moving image installation reflecting on the complex communication of Giant Cuttlefish, their relationship to colour, light and filmmaking.
The Giant Cuttlefish has three layers of skin. The unique cells of each layer produce colour, reflect and recompose light – creating spectacular displays of moving pattern across their bodies, creating symbols and signs in colour and light. The three layers of skin correspond to the light sensitive R, G, B layers of celluloid film. Through this work the artist asks, “can Cuttlefish be understood as a form of biological moving image? Are they film embodied?”
This project was undertaken on the unceded lands and waters of the Barngarla, Bunurong, Boonwurrung, Wadawurrung and Wurundjeri peoples.
Image credit: Elena Betros López, “as light through water”, 2025, video still. Courtesy the artist.
Berninneit Art Gallery
Monday–Friday: 9:30am – 5pm
Weekends: 10am – 4pm