ROSE FARRELL & GEORGE PARKIN'S 'Annunciation' from the series 'Repentance' is currently on view at National Gallery of Australia.
The artists said of the series: "We are questioning the archetypes/icons history puts before us; taking up the mythology of history, created through representations, which tend to naturalize myth as realism.
An unheralded nexus occurs within the space between past and present, as we examine the inexplicable tensions of Ideals over Time. Our art-historical tableaux attempt to encapsulate the traditional image; re-presenting to the twentieth century, dislocated enigmas. The cipher is presented as fact."
Rose Farrell & George Parkin, The Annunciation from the series Repentance, 1988, chromogenic photograph, 164 x 127 cm.