The first year of the pandemic is probably one that most of us would rather not remember, maybe one that even feels like a bad dream. Sitting in the resonant darkness of A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage) at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (until February 15), however, I found myself thinking back to some of the most powerful artistic responses to that unprecedented moment.

Faced with the closure of museums and galleries, many artists had embraced the surprisingly intimate forms of connection made possible by digital platforms. Our shared reliance on such platforms – by far the most enduring after-effect of that era – in turn sparked an awareness of their vulnerability to artifice and manipulation.

It was, above all, the deep sincerity of A Conversation with the Sun th

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