EVOLUTION OF FEARLESSNESS

Commissioned for the Vienna Festival Evolution of Fearlessness is an intimate‚ interactive installation that responds to touch. A sequel to Invisible by Night, together the works investigate powerful human emotions such as grief, loss and the re-emergence of hope. 

In creating Evolution of Fearlessness‚ Lynette Wallworth filmed portraits of eleven women residing in Australia‚ but originating from countries such as Afghanistan‚ Sudan‚ Iraq and El Salvador‚ who have lived through wars‚ survived concentration camps or extreme acts of violence. The work focuses on a state beyond terror and loss most closely akin to mercy. 

Built around the importance of gesture‚ Evolution of Fearlessness provides a tactile gateway to the living women contained in the piece‚ whose stories we are given glimpses of but whose lips do not speak. The work is an intimate revelation of the strength of the human spirit. Evolution Fearlessness is the most widely travelled of all of Lynette’s works.

Evolution of Fearlessness was commissioned by the New Crowned Hope Festival Vienna and produced by Forma.

The late Toni Morrison, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner, discusses Evolution of Fearlessness in the film Toni Morrison: The Pieces I am (Dir: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders 2019)

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What Refugee Women Teach Us About Resilience

Article by Lynette Wallworth Huffpost 2015