Science Gallery Melbourne Exhibition 'Dark Matters' - August 2023

Science Gallery Melbourne is launching 'Dark Matters,' a new exhibition in August, to present pieces that merge art and science, and we're proud to have some of our Centre researchers involved as collaborators with the exhibiting artists.

Developed with Science Gallery Melbourne, Arts at CERN, the University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics (CDM), this exhibition will explore the mysticism and intrigue of dark matter through multimedia artworks. 

Co-curated with the Head of Arts at CERN, Monica Bellow, the Head of Curatorial at Science Gallery Melbourne, Tilly Boleyn, several academic experts and young artists/scientists, selected artworks are from the Arts at CERN's international residency program.

Chroma V (2022), an enormous 50-meter-long sculpture by South Korean composer, music producer and artist Yunchul Kim will be featured at Dark Matters. A powerful statement, Yunchul worked with material scientists to explore new techniques to create Chroma V, a serpentine figure that "breathes and pulses like a nervous system" as it detects and reacts to subatomic particles.

Dark Matters looks to be an engaging, exciting and eye-opening exhibition in which we are thrilled to have some of our Centre members involved. This exhibition, the gallery's most successful open call for projects to date, will be one to watch, and we will be sure to write about this exhibition as it gets closer to opening. We hope it has as great a rapport with the public as it has with the artists who felt compelled to submit their pieces.

Monica Bello, Head of Arts at CERN, said: "Dark matter continues to be elusive as we continue our ultimate quest to understand it. We hope this exhibition sheds a light on this intriguing scientific question."

You can read a detailed write-up on the University of Melbourne website here.

---