COUNTER CURRENT environment through sensorial immersion 2025. Image by Laurent Segretier.

COUNTER CURRENT

Presented by WHALE

DETAILS

Free, no booking required


47 Easey Street, Collingwood VIC, Australia

DATES

Thu 14 May 6 – 8pm

Fri 15 May 1 – 5pm

Sat 16 May 1 – 5pm

Sun 17 May 1 – 5pm

This series explores the edge of a tropical island, focusing on the shoreline as a threshold between interior and exterior. Filmed from a moving boat, the ocean surface captures the tension between natural current and directed movement. This interaction creates shifting linear patterns, similar to an audio equaliser, turning the landscape into a kind of visual score. Four composers from BROTHERS respond to this material, translating the imagery into rhythm and resonance.

Conceived for Melbourne Design Week, the work is presented as a designed environment rather than a projection, the viewer occupies a space between opposing flows. The body becomes the vessel. Light from the water fills the room, dissolving the boundary between image and architecture and turning the space into an atmosphere rather than a container.

The work proposes a slower, collective experience, focusing on flow, synchronisation, and shared presence rather than spectacle.

Participants

Laurent Segretier
Laurent Segretier is a French fine art photographer, born in Guadeloupe and based in Hong Kong and Paris. His work explores cyberspatiality through digital distortion, with exhibitions across major international institutions and galleries, including Art Basel Hong Kong.