Artists

Lilah Benetti (they/them) is a transdisciplinary artist working across contemporary art and cinema, with moving image as their primary material. Engaging cinema as a medium shaped by ritual, attention, and transmission, their practice moves between cinematic film and spatial installation, treating narrative filmmaking and experimental moving image as parallel sites of inquiry. Grounded in research as relation, Benetti views still and moving image as fluid and porous, shaped through collaboration, dialogue, and attentiveness to place. Working with sound and performance, their work explores how images hold duration, atmosphere, and affect, and how meaning is carried through presence and absence rather than resolution. Photography functions as documentation and as a thinking tool, contributing to a working archive where light, gesture, and presence are tested and held across multiple forms. Their work has been presented internationally, including Tate Britain, Dakar Biennale OFF, and IFC Center New York.
 

In Residence at Bundanon

My time at Bundanon will be centred on listening, presence, and allowing work that is not yet formed to come into relation. I’m interested in using the environment as a condition for excavation, creating space for my archive, research, and unfinished ideas to breathe and gather shape. This period will involve sustained writing, audio recording, and self-documentation as ways of thinking aloud and working through process. The residency will support a deepening of how I work, allowing intuition, reflection, and material to inform both my upcoming projects this year and my longer-term practice.