CRISÁLIDA
false / intimacy

Skin moves gently,
like a breathing landscape, darkness descends.
The surfaces crinkle and fold,
creating crevices,
lines and hollows.
Glistening on the dark surface,
appearing pearl like, suspended in space and time.
Between artificial and natural, nothing is what it seems.
Reflective by nature, CRISÁLIDA is a moment of calm in a rapidly shifting world. This video work wrestles with our relationships to time, intimacy, landscape and money through the lens of the body, entangling the artificial and natural, and the human desire to see, shift and control the future.
CRISÁLIDA unfolds as a symbiotic relationship between body and camera. Through a series of explorations, the project investigates how these two mediums respond to and shape one another. Approached with tenderness and care, the work embraces intimacy as both subject and method. The process itself was a site of exchange, where trust allowed our experimentation to deepen.
The images are duplicated /reworked / represented throughout reminding us that our stories are multifaceted, that what and how we see the world is constantly changing as it passes through time. The work questions our capacity to distinguish between what is real and what is constructed inviting viewers to linger and settle into this space of introspection.
like a breathing landscape, darkness descends.
The surfaces crinkle and fold,
creating crevices,
lines and hollows.
Glistening on the dark surface,
appearing pearl like, suspended in space and time.
Between artificial and natural, nothing is what it seems.
Reflective by nature, CRISÁLIDA is a moment of calm in a rapidly shifting world. This video work wrestles with our relationships to time, intimacy, landscape and money through the lens of the body, entangling the artificial and natural, and the human desire to see, shift and control the future.
CRISÁLIDA unfolds as a symbiotic relationship between body and camera. Through a series of explorations, the project investigates how these two mediums respond to and shape one another. Approached with tenderness and care, the work embraces intimacy as both subject and method. The process itself was a site of exchange, where trust allowed our experimentation to deepen.
The images are duplicated /reworked / represented throughout reminding us that our stories are multifaceted, that what and how we see the world is constantly changing as it passes through time. The work questions our capacity to distinguish between what is real and what is constructed inviting viewers to linger and settle into this space of introspection.
EXHIBITIONS

CURRENT
Watch This Space ARI
18 April - 7 May, 2026
Mparntwe / Alice Springs (NT)
PAST
Desert Festival
Oct 19 - 21, 2023
Mparntwe / Alice Springs (NT)
CREDITS
Concept and creation by Ashleigh Musk and Ivan Trigo Miras
Anna Whitaker
sound design
Jen Hector
mentorship / spatial design assistance
Anna Whitaker
sound design
Jen Hector
mentorship / spatial design assistance
Developed with the support of
2024
Project Seed Funding
Red Hot Arts Central Australia
Mparntwe, NT
CRISÁLIDA was made possible by the Australian Governments Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.
2024
Project Seed Funding
Red Hot Arts Central Australia
Mparntwe, NT
CRISÁLIDA was made possible by the Australian Governments Regional Arts Fund, which supports the arts in regional and remote Australia.