Siena Barnes’ new exhibition, The Night Star, is an installation comprising Siena’s signature oversized drawings, films and 3D printed antiquities. The Night Star sees Siena begin to use film as her primary, guiding medium.

In the show, Siena’s films engage in conversation with the objects they inspire, the talismans, fetishes and statuary which mark Siena’s first foray into the world of 3D artworks. The exhibition examines the ancient Babylonian journey, a downward-spiralling voyage into the Great Below known as The Descent of Inanna, the first recorded description of katabasis. In the katabasis myth, the goddess Inanna, the queen of heaven, must let go of her divinity, sovereignty and power to be reborn.

The Night Star exposes the personal and societal shadow because, now more than ever before, what is hidden must be seen.