6th September - 3rd October 2023

In The Duality of Reality, Peta Minnici presents a series of still life and interior paintings that examine how light, shadow, and reflection shape our perception of space and materiality. Translucent and opaque objects act as conduits for light, creating complex patterns of shadows and highlights that play a central role in each composition. These optical phenomena not only define form but also evoke the intangible — offering a visual metaphor for the threshold between the physical and the spiritual.

Reflections and shadows become motifs of duality — echoing the idea that what we perceive is not always aligned with what truly exists. In this way, the works suggest a layered reality, where presence and absence, material and immaterial, coalesce.

This exploration deepens in Minnici’s interior scenes, where windows and doorways function as portals between worlds. Referencing the home of the late Australian artist Arthur Boyd, these works merge memory, imagination, and lived experience into dreamlike spaces that are both intimate and expansive. Through this interplay of architectural elements and shifting landscapes, Minnici offers a quiet meditation on perception, loss, and the unseen forces that shape our lived environments.

Peta Minnici 2023

Install Images by Louis Lim