Carla Zimbler

Carla Zimbler bends light across architecture and soaks sculptural forms in vivid textures as a live performative experience. Her installations explore fluidity to shift perspective and redefine spatial, spiritual and emotional boundaries. Acting as conduit and gateway to the otherworldly and the afterlife, Carla offers audiences multimodal devices to examine ephemerality and extrasensory perception. Utilising experimental techniques to explore phenomena, bodies are drawn into immersive spaces where sound-responsive visuals expand, burst and dissolve. The intimate, experiential world-building elements of her practice ebb and flow between the familiar and uncanny, navigating digitally modified environments in a lucid dream-like state. Carla’s visual work and installation practice has been featured at Sydney Opera House, National Gallery of Australia, Arts House, Melbourne Recital Centre, VIVID Sydney, ACMI, Reykjavík Winter Lights Festival, Distortion Ø and Phoenix Central Park.

Carla is our 2024 Little Operations artist and, along with performance artist Megan Payne, collaborated with Sui Zhen, the recipient of our 2020 Hi-Viz Short Work Commission.