Angelica Mesiti has long been fascinated by performance, as a mode of storytelling and a means to express social ideas in physical form. In recent years, she has been creating videos that reveal how culture is manifested through non-linguistic forms of communication, especially through vocabularies of sound and gesture. While borrowing archetypes and stylistic cues from cinema and utilizing the visual language of film to present detailed studies of human subjects in heightened states of reverie or reflection, Mesiti’s works eschew linearity. Instead, she uses a rich, aesthetic treatment to uncover the transformative potential of all human beings, valuing the qualities of ambiguity and independence. Exhibitions include “The Rites of When,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2024), Busan Biennale (2020); ASSEMBLY, Australian Pavilion, 58th of La Biennale di Venezia (2019), etc.

Portrait　©Photo by Josh Raymond