Simone Hine: Split Screen

Overview

You know that feeling when you think you've seen someone before, but just can't place them? Imagine that turned into a video exhibition. At Split Screen, you'll be certain you recognise the person in each of the works displayed throughout Metro Arts — and, as you peer closer, you'll realise that they're all the same.

That'd be video, performance and installation artist Simone Hine, who not only created everything in the showcase, but stars in every single piece. Combining both new and existing works, she probes the idea of screen content, plays with popular culture, and picks apart the concept of fashioning an identity through the flat, rectangular surfaces we all spend too much time looking at.

The end result displays at the CBD space from October 19 to November 5, though Split Screen does more than adorn the walls waiting for viewers to watch. It also takes audiences on a journey of newly constructed narratives — and, probably makes you think differently about your screen time.