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Evolving Motion - Pop Up 24hr Exhibition
Event Description
A body of work conceptualised by two Sydney creatives Tahmyna Rad (Artist) and Billy Zammit (Photographer).
Drawn together through collaboration, a shared love for movement, and the underground subcultures that fostered this vision.
EVOLVING MOTION
The pair took inspiration from their lifestyles based around music, the D.I.Y, and independent cultural scenes. The revolving door of ideation and concept development came as a result of repeat conversations over their affinity towards visceral, tangible, fleeting experiences; rather than those curated for outcome.
This work is an insight to experience: A rawness, endurance, challenge, and the reality that beauty is worn as a reflection of efforts made. TRANSFORMATION.
To share that vulnerability with intention. To break out of the mode of pre-conception, only to find expecations can't be controlled.
Over the course of the shoot itself, Tahmyna undertook an hour of high intensity interval workouts with thirty seconds between each scene to capture the highest moment of exertion.
A moment to witness the body in stillness.
ARTIST BIO
Tahmyna Rad
My creative practice is rooted in storytelling, movement and community. Through concept-driven performance and conversation, I examine culture, history, and, in this body of work, the control and reclamation of the body.
This exhibition, my first physical presentation of personal work, co-produced with Billy Zammit, inverts traditional muse–photographer relationships. Here, I am both muse and author, while Billy acts as interpreter and documenter.
Billy and I were drawn together by a shared love for unfiltered movement and the underground spaces that foster it. We first connected through rave and DIY culture, our conversations always returning to how we could translate these visceral experiences into something tangible. This project is the manifestation of that vision, and beyond: My relationship with self, femininity, and subversive culture has long informed my understanding of movement, and remains a cornerstone of my creative partnership and friendship with Billy.
Evolving Motion is a conversation between internal agency and external constraint. Movement becoming a method of uncovering the tensions between self and structure, and an ongoing negotiation between body and world.
Billy Zammit
After years of discussion (with Tahmyna) and deep diving into how to portray movement in feminine/masculine energy without curating to an audience; Evolving Motion came from a sparked concept, to a representation of each others creative influence.
Creating a tangible world that felt earned, yet through a lens of candidness and trust. Tahmyna and I worked on making these images feel visceral and textured through intense unforgiving lighting and highlighting sharpness throughout every detail.
Already previously established in creative projects and collaboration, trust was a given when creating this body of work with T(Tahmyna). With our mutual respect for the origins of the D.I.Y; organically deep rooted in rave/graffiti sub cultures, there was a natural collision of concepts that led to movement being a catalyst for expression.
Whether that personal influence led me to the excitement of things feeling rapid, a captured moment happening in real time or it was a perfect storm between Tahmyna’s 100 day project (daily 5kms) to have her be the muse to our own ideation through heavy exertion in an almost hypnosis style trance of motivation and movement.
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