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MEDIA ALERT: New exhibitions celebrate culture, language and kinship

Published on Monday, 1 July 2024
Against a white background, a pale hand firmly grips a traditional Aboriginal carved wooden spear, as if to strike. Tied to the weapon is a paper label with a barcode on it.

Incinerator Gallery is proud to present three new exhibitions that bring together artists to celebrate culture, language and kinship, while investigating the critical issues of our time.

Opening night: Friday, 5 July 2024, 6pm–8pm AEST
Exhibition dates: 6 July – 8 September 2024

 

These Arms Hold
Guest Curator: Maya Hodge
Artists: Gabi Briggs, Indianna Hunt, Moorina Bonini and Tarryn Love

This collaborative exhibition traverses contemporary and traditional ways of representing and embodying Aboriginal women’s weaponry and resistance from the south-east of Australia. Through workshops and conversations, the artists come together to honour their sovereignty, strength and bloodlines as Aboriginal women.
Public Event: Saturday, 24 August, 2pm-3pm AEST
Join the artists and curator for a yarning circle as they share their insights on creating these new works, and their views on weaponry and resistance as Aboriginal women.

The event will begin with a traditional Smoking Ceremony and feature new video works by the First Nations-led multi-media company Blakground Productions.

Supported in partnership with Blak Dot Gallery and assisted by Creative Australia.

 

anti-aria for ater-
Artist and Curator: Abbra Kotlarczyk

The third and final instalment in a series of exhibitions about reading rooms, anti-aria for ater- centres around genealogy, familial history, material and elemental kinships, and queer modes of reading and resistance. around genealogy, familial history, material and elemental kinships, and queer modes of reading and resistance.

Public Event: Saturday, 10 August, 2pm-3pm AEST
Join the exhibiting artist Abbra Kotlarczyk and poet Autumn Royal for an afternoon of spoken performance, presenting poetic and auto-fictive texts central to this exhibition.

 

EPAR OPAR
Guest Curator: Anindita Banerjee
Artists: Anindita Banerjee, Mita Chowdhury, Neel Banerjee and Rajdeep Roy, Nira Rahman, Rakini Devi, Sharmin huq Sangeeta, Shinjita Roy and Tasmina Khan Majles

This exhibition brings together nine Australia-based Bengali artists who explore the enduring impact of British colonialism on Bengali identity. The colonial partition created between Bangladesh and West Bengal divided the region along cultural and religious lines. The artists’ works untangle these colonial legacies to reimagine the boundaries through a nuanced perspective on identity within the diaspora.

Public Event: Saturday, 17 August, 2pm-3pm AEST
Join the curator and exhibiting artists as they discuss the impacts of the British colonial partition on Bengali identity, and how this historical event continues to shape their work. Free, registrations required.

These three exhibitions have been produced by Incinerator Gallery curators Jake Treacy and MJ Flamiano.

To learn more and to book tickets to the free public events, visit the gallery website.

 

Incinerator Gallery
180 Holmes Road Aberfeldie VIC, Australia, 3040

Public gallery, free admission

incineratorgallery.com.au

 

Public transport
Train to Moonee Ponds Station (to Craigieburn), plus 15-minute walk, or bus 467 to Stop Maribyrnong Park/Holmes Road (to Aberfeldie).

Tram 57 to Stop Epsom Road (to Maribyrnong Park).

 

ENDS

Media enquiries: 

For photos and interview opportunities, contact

Jo Roberts, Team Leader, Media and Strategic Communications

Mobile: 0416 156 566 Email: media@mvcc.vic.gov.au

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