“Everything You Can Dream of is True”
Hoda Afshar, Akil Ahamat, Tarik Ahlip, Maissa Alameddine, Paola Balla, Travis De Vries, Jagath Dheerasekara, Dictaphone Group, Kuba Dorabialski, Lux Eterna, Riana Head-Toussaint, Roberta Joy Rich, Gillian Kayrooz, Eugenia Lim, Jumana Manna, Hayley Millar Baker, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Jazz Money, James Nguyen, Katy B Plummer, Khaled Sabsabi, Larissa Sansour, Feras Shaheen and Subash Thebe Limbu
14 June → 28 June 2025
Gallery

Hoda Afshar was born in Tehran, Iran and is now based in Naarm/Melbourne. Working across photography and moving-image, her practice explores the nature and possibilities of documentary image-making, considering the representation of gender, marginality, and displacement. Hoda employs processes that disrupt traditional image-making practices, play with the presentation of imagery, or merge aspects of conceptual, staged, and documentary photography.

Akil Ahamat is a Sri Lankan Malay artist and filmmaker currently based on Gadigal Country. In their work, they animate the non-human in order to talk to it. In the crinkles and whispers of these conversations, shapes of the inhuman forces that govern our lives emerge, as well as our relationships to them.

Tarik Ahlip is a multidisciplinary artist working on Dharug and Gadigal land. Working across film, sculpture, verse and sound, Tarik's practice considers poetics as capable of driving epistemic change.

Maissa Alameddine grew up in Tripoli, Lebanon and now lives and works on the unceded lands of the Cammeraygal and Darug peoples, Sydney. She is a multidisciplinary artist and vocalist, who explores the idea of migration as a chronic injury and uses her voice as a provocation and a response.

Paola Balla is a Wemba Wemba and Gunditjmara artist, writer, curator and educator. She focuses on Aboriginal women's stories and resistance with a visual practice, encapsulating research, art, memory and narrative realms. Her work centres Aboriginal women’s voices, activism, Sovereignty, and matriarchy and First Nations ways of being, knowing and doing.

Travis De Vries is Gamilaroi and Dharug artist from country NSW whose work that is a commentary on Indigenous and Blak ideologies through a futurism lens, often making satirical statements about the bureaucratisation of the Indigenous identity. Travis is the founder of Awesome Black.

Jagath Dheerasekara is an inter-media artist in Sydney. His work is informed by incidents of fragility in the principles of humanity and also involves facilitating community cultural art projects. In the early 1990s he was forced to leave Sri Lanka owing to political and human rights activism and granted political asylum in France, before moving to Australia.

Dictaphone Group (Tania El Khoury, Abir Saksouk, Petra Serhal) is a research and performance collective that creates live art events based on multidisciplinary study of space. They have been creating site specific performances informed by research in a variety of places like a cable car, a fisherman’s boat, and a discontinued bus, with the aim to question our relationship to the city, and redefine its public space.

Kuba Dorabialski is an artist, writer and educator from Wrocław, Poland now based in Sydney. Working primarily in video installation, Kuba is interested in mysticism, political history and the personal poetic; his tools are geography, language and cinema history. Kuba has exhibited in the US, across Europe and Australia.

Lux Eterna is a Western Sydney based interdisciplinary artist exploring the embodied gaze, authoring post-human futures, decolonisation and awareness. Lux’s work posits embodied sensitivities, imagination and awareness for initialisation of and at the interstices of drawing, dance, cinema, video, sound and performance.

Riana Head-Toussaint is an interdisciplinary disabled artist, who uses a manual wheelchair for mobility. Her work crosses traditional artform boundaries, and exists in online and offline spaces. Enduring concerns are agency, representation, the limits of empathy, and how these impact people across different marginalised intersections. Her work is deeply informed by her experiences as a disabled woman of Afro-Caribbean descent, and her training as a legal practitioner.

Roberta Joy Rich is an artist, curator and educator. Drawing upon her lived experiences as a diaspora Southern African 'Cape' woman with Afro-Asian lineages, Roberta uses language, text, video, archives, photo-media, satire and storytelling to interrogate constructs of race, gender, imperialism, Western singularity and notions of authenticity. Roberta's work aims to deconstruct colonial modalities whilst proposing empowering sites of collective self-determination.

Gillian Kayrooz’s work across film and installation is grounded in observations of her immediate surroundings and has evolved into a practice that re-authors personal histories through experimental modes of non-linear storytelling. Her practice is informed by personal experience and connection to place, and invites the specificities of culture and community to push against socially dictated boundaries of cultural stereotypes and socio-economic related stigmas.

Eugenia Lim is an artist of Chinese Singaporean descent who works across body, lens, social and spatial practice to explore how national identities, migration and capital cut, divide and bond our interdependent world. A performer within her own works, Eugenia invents personas to explore the tensions of the individual within society – the alienation and belonging in a globalised world.

Jumana Manna is an artist raised in Jerusalem, living in Berlin. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, and filmmaking, Jumana deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of architecture, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and its regeneration.

Hayley Millar Baker is a lens-based artist in Naarm/Melbourne. Her identity is deeply rooted in her Aboriginality, belonging to Gunditjmara, Djabwurrung, and Nira-Bulok Taungurung peoples through her maternal lineage, with Anglo-Indian and Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry on her paternal side. This blend of influences shapes Hayley’s sense of self, worldview and artistic vision, infusing her work with a rich sense of history, identity, and spirituality, offering a tapestry of perspectives that deeply inform and enhance the themes in her work. Hayley’s works have been extensively exhibited in major group and solo exhibitions and are held in national and international public institutional collections.

Sancintya Mohini Simpson is a descendant of indentured labourers sent from India to work on colonial sugar plantations in South Africa. Her work navigates the complexities of migration, memory, and trauma—addressing gaps and silences within the colonial archive. Simpson’s work moves between painting, video, poetry, and performance to develop narratives and construct rituals that reflect on her maternal lineage.

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land, Sydney. Jazz's practice is centred around poetics while producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Jazz's writing has been widely published nationally and internationally, and performed on stages around the world. Jazz’s first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket was the 2020 winner of the David Unaipon Award.

James Nguyen's interdisciplinary practice moves between live and online performance, video, drawing and installation. He often makes work in collaboration with family and friends, inviting them to respond to specific sites using readily available materials. Processes of research and conversation play key roles in his practice, which examines strategies of decolonisation, while also interrogating the politics of family history, displacement and diaspora.

Katy B Plummer is an artist living and working on stolen Gadigal land. She has a BFA from UNSW and and MFA from the School of Visual Art in New York. She is interested in ghosts, cinematic storytelling, anachronistic textile practices and high school theatre aesthetics. Her work suggests that history is a haunted house, and that violence, poetry and witchcraft are legitimate political strategies. Katy has shown nationally and internationally.

Khaled Sabsabi migrated with his family from Tripoli to Australia in 1978 following the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon. They settled in Western Sydney, where Sabsabi now lives and works. Since the late 1980s Sabsabi has worked with communities, particularly those in Western Sydney, to create and develop arts programs and projects that explore the complexities of place, displacement, identity and ideological differences associated with migrant experiences and marginalisation.

Larissa Sansour was born in East Jerusalem, Sansour (PS/DK) studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London and New York. She represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennale. Recent solo exhibitions include Whitworth Gallery in Manchester, KINDL in Berlin, Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Larissa lives and works in London.

Feras Shaheen is curious in letting his conceptual interests lead him across a variety of mediums. Working with choreography, installation work, film, performance, design, and street dance, the core of Feras’ practice is to connect and engage audiences. He seeks to bring activism into his art practice, with outcomes that are accessible and community centred. Feras subverts traditional relationships between mediums to challenge audiences' perspectives, specifically to disrupt colonial discourses and reduce Western reliance on neutrality and apathy.

Subash Thebe Limbu is a Yakthung (Limbu) artist from Yakthung Nation (Limbuwan) from what we currently know as eastern nepal. He works with sound, film, music, performance, and painting. His works are inspired by socio-political issues, resistance and science/speculative fiction. Notion of time, climate change, and indigeneity or Adivasi Futurism as he calls it, are recurring themes in his works.