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Wyndham Art Gallery’s new exhibition Remnants: What Remains and What Flows opens on 18 July brings together seven internationally recognised artists to examine colonial legacies, memory, identity and justice through contemporary art.
Complicated Legacy of Colonialism Explored
A new exhibition exploring memory, identity and the enduring impacts of colonial violence is opening at Wyndham Art Gallery in Werribee on 17 July.
Remnants: What Remains and What Flows, curated by local Congolese-born, Melbourne-based artist and curator Wani Toaishara, will run until 18 October.
The free exhibition brings together six internationally recognised artists – Tace Stevens, Hussein Abdirahman Mohamud, Latai Taumoepeau, The Unbound Collective, Idil Abdullahi and Anu Kumar.
Stevens image, We Were Just Little Boys is featured above.
Spanning film, photography, performance, sound and ceramics, the exhibition explores how memory, care and transformation are experienced through histories shaped by colonial violence.
Using soil, water and the body as both materials and metaphors, the artworks revisit fractured histories while inviting visitors to reflect on their own relationships with home, memory and identity.
The exhibition also encourages audiences to consider more equitable futures by bringing together diverse artistic voices that explore shared histories, justice and community.
An official opening event will be held on 25 July from 3pm to 5pm, featuring a spoken word performance by Zaynab Farah and music from DJ Blu Canary.
An Auslan tour for deaf and hard of hearing visitors will be held on 8 August from 10am to 11am. A curator talk and tour with Wani Toaishara will follow from 12pm to 1pm, with Swahili translation provided by Hamile Ibrahim.
Remnants: What Remains and What Flows is open Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm and weekends from 10am to 3pm until 18 October. Entry is free.
