Atong Atem and Lucreccia Quintanilla
“On Merri Creek”
In this special edition of West Space Offsite, we present a new video work by Atong Atem and an accompanying sound piece by Lucreccia Quintanilla.
Both works draw from the artists’ experiences of the state of Victoria’s lockdown measures, including the limiting of movement to a 5k radius, Proximate to the Merri Creek, Lucreccia and Atong collected natural materials, field recordings and video footage from along its banks.
Atong Atem
Merri Creek in the late afternoon
Lucreccia Quintanilla
For Merri and Atong. A gathering of sounds for the collection
These works were commissioned by our friends and neighbours The Social Studio to launch Atong Atem’s collection with Romance Was Born.
Atong Atem is a South Sudanese artist and writer from Bor living in Narrm Melbourne. She primarily works with photography and video.
Lucreccia Quintanilla is an artist, writer, DJ and researcher Gratefully living and working on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Woiwurrung (Wurundjeri) peoples of the Kulin Nation. Her practice is a collaborative one which manifests into outcomes within galleries and also as events and performances outside of that context. Her writing and artworks have been published and exhibited both nationally and internationally.