Jarra Karalinar Steel
Living well, 2023
VIC, Australia
Living Well by artist Jarra Karalinar Steel, is a dynamic large-scale text-based animation expressed through the artist’s visual language of symbols and design, influenced by her Boonwurrung heritage and culture.
Commissioned by Now or Never in collaboration with Experimenta.
About
Living Well is a dynamic large-scale text-based animation expressed through the artist’s visual language of symbols and design, influenced by her Boonwurrung heritage and culture. The artwork comes to life across the projected surface of the library.
“This work is inspired by the intergenerational labour and survival of my family and ancestors who came before. Those who passed down their knowledge, strength and being, for us to create, reclaim and a rebuild a better, positive future, a future that was stolen from them, that they couldn’t have dared to dream.”
Resources
Audio Description (1:03)
Podcast: In conversation with Jarra Karalinar Steel (32:06)
View on the Now or Never website
The Artist
Jarra Karalinar Steel
Jarra Karalinar Steel is a multidisciplinary artist who's work explores themes of blak futurism, identity, memory and ways to insert contemporary cultural visual language into the urban and digital landscape by reclaiming space and belonging.