Projects

Waheeda Malullah’s practice examines the socialised norms of Bahraini society and the wider Arabian Gulf through a playful,
performative lens.

Barbara Walker’s figurative art practice interrogates past and contemporary manifestations of issues at the intersection of racial identity, belonging, class, power and body politics.

Writer and filmmaker Maya Cozier draws from her experience as a dancer and choreographer to create works that focus on West African and Caribbean history and culture.

Tahila Mintz engages with ancestral systems of matriarchy, gender equality and contemporary issues impacting Indigenous societies.

With an idiosyncratic sensibility informed by Afrofuturism and inflected by humour, Kambui Olujimi mines the collective psyche as a source of social and political commentary.

Centred around notions of crossings, transmissions and reversibility, Ayoung Kim’s practice builds complex, nonlinear narratives
of modern Korean history using characters that experience the transnational push and pull of technological advancement.

Steve McQueen is an artist and filmmaker whose practice explores the tactility and corporeality of the moving image, impressing upon his audiences a more acute awareness of their bodies in relation to physical space.

At the intersection of art and activism, Meleanna Meyer’s practice draws from Hawaiian history, cultural anthropology, Indigenous linguistics, architecture and set design.

Maharani Mancanagara unravels the complex cultural and sociopolitical history of her homeland, Indonesia, breathing new life into stories that fall outside the realm of popular documented history.

Emirati-Lebanese artist Farah Al Qasimi’s multidisciplinary practice examines postcolonial power structures and gender roles and is visually grounded in the aesthetics of post-internet consumer culture.

New Red Order engages with a network of collaborators to produce video, performance and installation works that challenge contemporary colonial strategies and examine obstacles to Indigenous growth.

Smita Sharma’s photojournalistic work centres the traumatised and forgotten voices of those subjected to human rights abuses.

Theaster Gates is a visual artist, archivist, curator and musician whose practice explores Black identity and history through material investigations into labour, spirituality, vacancy and spatiality.

By juxtaposing mass media depictions of Indigenous peoples with authentic cultural identities, Wendy Red Star creates personal, playful, revelatory and unsettling work.

At the intersection of conceptual, staged and documentary image- making, Hoda Afshar’s lens- based artistic practice explores the representation of gender, marginality and displacement.