Medea is an installation part of ACCA (Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne) exhibition NEW010. Juliana Engberg, artistic director of ACCA, proclaims “this NEW010 is an attempt to throw expectations up in the air and see how it lands.”
The idea of NEW010 was a collaboration of ACCA’s curatorial team and architectural design firm NEXUS design founder Janne Faulkner, who began a discussion of how art collaborates with design. 
The result was a gathering of 7 of the country’s most outstanding and promising artists, who each
had to create a response to a particular space designed by the NEXUS design team.

Alicia Frankovich’s response was Medea.  Suspended creepers, cherry tomatoes, eggplants and other fruiting plants created an upside-down forest of foliage. The lighting, supplied by Euroluce, filtered through the hanging garden from the trusses, creating shadows of leaves and plants, and dappled effects on the walls and the forest floor.
The mix of warm and cool colour temperatures from medium, flood and spot lights created contrasting effects of light, shadows, emphasizing the forest of foliage.

Photograph: Christian Capurro