Join us to celebrate the launch of Lumina: The Photic Atlas, a new publication by artist Izabela Pluta, published by Perimeter Editions. Hear from Izabela Pluta in conversation with the critical art and poetry collective Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange), as they discuss Pluta’s expanded photographic practice. Following the conversation, guests are invited to stay for a celebratory drink.
About The Publication
Lumina: The Photic Atlas is Izabela Pluta’s third book developed in collaboration with Perimeter Editions. This new publication maps and expands upon the artist’s site-responsive exhibition Lumina, presented at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, in 2025. The project explored the intersection of photography, time, memory, impermanence, and place, transforming Heide Modern into a type of camera over the course of a year. By laying exposed lengths of silver gelatin photographic paper across the gallery floor, Pluta registered subtle shifts of light and shadow as they passed through the glass walls and windows across changing seasons.
Expanding upon the project, this book functions both as a continuation of the exhibition and a critical compendium of the processes that shaped it. Featuring new essays by curator Melissa Keys and art historian Witold Kanicki alongside creative texts by Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange), the book also includes photographs and video stills depicting Pluta’s childhood home in Warsaw, Poland. Mapping Pluta’s fieldwork methodology, the publication reveals a dynamic sense of continuous unfolding and entropy, articulating a fluid mode of moving through and being in the world.
Publication details
Lumina: The Photic Atlas
192 pages, 16.8 x 23.8 cm
OTA bind, softcover with flaps
Perimeter Editions (Naarm / Melbourne)
Speakers
Izabela Pluta is a Polish-born, Australian-based artist whose expanded photographic practice has developed a unique visual language of spatial and representational means to signal a different modality of vision. Her work pushes the limits of photography as a medium and practice, developing a way of working that physically and conceptually navigates states of uncertainty. Pluta’s work has been presented in significant exhibitions at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, UQ Art Museum, UNSW Galleries, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Bundanon Art Museum, Museum of Warsaw, Poland, and Spazju Kreattiv, Malta. Izabela is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art & Design, UNSW.
Snack Syndicate (Andrew Brooks and Astrid Lorange)
Andrew Brooks is a Lecturer in Media and Culture in the School of the Arts and Media, UNSW. Astrid Lorange is a Senior Lecturer in Art, Writing, and Cultural Theory in the School of Art & Design, UNSW. Together, they make texts, installations, public programs, and study spaces as the critical art collective Snack Syndicate. Their collection of essays, Homework, was published in 2021 by Discipline. Their current book project, The Art of Unmaking: Abolition and Aesthetics in Australia, reads contemporary art in relation to police power, settler colonialism, and abolitionist horizons.
