CRYUS TANG's work, 'High Atlas', from her 'Crystalline Echoes' series was recently selected from over 700 entries to be a finalist in the Darebin Art Prize 2026 - a biennial national multi-medium acquisitive art prize awarding excellence in contemporary visual art.
'High Atlas' was produced by TANG during her last residency in Morocco and is inspired by her experience of the vibrant landscape of the mountain ranges.
TANG has relentlessly perused the tussle between photography and memory. In 'Crystalline Echoes', TANG distorts her imagery, forcing the photograph to render a moment in time in physical space. 'Crystalline Echoes' presents a series of metallic sculptures, folded like paper airplanes or emerging like irregular crystals. TANG glides between the solidity of sculpture and the instability of the faded photograph. While their metal forms recall Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao or Ron Robertson-Swann’s iconic yellow public sculpture Vault (1980), the surface of each work holds a mysterious glint from the past—an echo of an ephemeral experience that resist all permanence.
TANG's work will be exhibited in The Darebin Art Prize 2026 at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre from Wednesday 25 February until Saturday 20 June 2026.
