Deception Film

Danelle Bergstrom & Zelko Dejanovic (digital compositor), Deception, 2023, single channel HD video, 1 minute 18 seconds looped.

This video was created specifically for the Afterglow survey exhibition more than a decade after the three ‘Deception’ paintings were created in 2011. The three significant works were inspired by a residency in Darwin and act as a symbolic metaphor for that particular time in the artist’s life.

‘What appears to be perfect on the surface is often deceptive and reflects an underlying struggle.’ Life is not all as it seems.

The hauntingly beautiful video moves across and around the surface of the paintings into a journey from the peaceful and serene to an uneasy sensation.