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Tina Stefanou, Hym(e)nals, 2022

  • 6 women sit mounted on horses in a darkened space. They each wear a head piece with a circular light around the head that is covered with a gauze like veil that comes down to the horses legs and lights their faces. Each is a different colour - red, green, blue, orange, purple, cream.

    Tina Stefanou, Hym(e)nals, 2022 video installation, sound 30:00min

  • 6 women sit mounted at different heights on horses in a darkened space. They each wear a head piece with a circular light around the head that is covered with a gauze like veil that comes down to the horses legs and lights their faces. Each is a different colour - red, green, blue, orange, purple, cream. Two of the riders point to each other.

    Tina Stefanou, Hym(e)nals, 2022 video installation, sound 30:00min

  • 6 women sit mounted on horses in a darkened space. They each wear a head piece with a circular light around the head that is covered with a gauze like veil that comes down to the horses legs and lights their faces. Each is a different colour - red, green, blue, orange, purple, cream.
  • 6 women sit mounted at different heights on horses in a darkened space. They each wear a head piece with a circular light around the head that is covered with a gauze like veil that comes down to the horses legs and lights their faces. Each is a different colour - red, green, blue, orange, purple, cream. Two of the riders point to each other.

Artists statement

Hym(e)nals features six teenage female horse riders and their elderly equine companions from Cottles Bridge. The work mimics and challenges themes in religious paintings, speaking to local ecologies and communities as well as current global events of female solidarity and equality, and interspecies communication. Drawing on myths around coming-of-age, the girls hum, scream and whisper into unknown climactic futures and changes in both body and environment.

Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art 2023 Local Winner

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video installation, sound

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