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New NFSA Installation Inferno by Mikaela Stafford

black and white abstract fluid imagery
black and white abstract fluid imagery with billowing in bottom right hand corner
Pictured right is artist Mikaela Stafford, and pictured left is composer Kate Durman
black and white abstract fluid imagery
black and white abstract fluid imagery with billowing in bottom right hand corner
Pictured right is artist Mikaela Stafford, and pictured left is composer Kate Durman

Overview

Step into Inferno – an exciting new audiovisual installation by Paris-based Australian artist, Mikaela Stafford.

Commissioned by the NFSA, and created in response to her experience as a resident artist, Inferno is a sci-fi reverie that is eerie and ethereal; alien, yet earthly. The work is heightened by a genre-bending, techno-transcendental soundscape created by composer and sound designer Kate Durman.

Enjoy this epic new digital artwork which meditates on how memory, identity and existence are shaped in the digital age.

Warning: Inferno contains strobing visual effects.

Dates

28 Aug – 16 Nov 2025
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