Maybe the title
of the show is
the friends we met along the way
Curated by Sara Jajou and Jermaine Ibarra
13 Feb - 1 March, 2025
Featuring work by:
Fentine Gard, Seven (7), Tina Saba, Evie J Taylor, Sara Jajou, Sunday, Jermaine Ibarra, Jackson Elhage, Klau Rimando, Ryan Campbell and Kween Kali
Mys. Fentine Gard
Fen tumbling out of the barrel of a big gun – okay? Chewing and loose with it. Onto the top of a circus tent, colours shifting panel-to-panel without a screen or wind – fallen into oyster-sauce bubbling pitch, sinking through, then caught in seaweed. Coughing out jagged spicule, quivering, fallen free cascading above a twilight city. Flashing as superimposed film between industry and residence – settling into ribbon dancers in dark rooms. Trying to get up, but stumbling again with fledgling limbs. Turning inside out as a flower, viscous dripping from behind the wallpaper, nose running flooding. Swimming laps brain; Winking outta view.
Tina Saba
Tina E.J Saba (any pronouns) is a Naarm (Melbourne) based Palestinian artist aiming to create artworks that allows others from the Arab diaspora to relate and feel at home with their artwork. Their works are based on their childhood memories of Palestine, both the highs and lows. Incorporating family memories and history whilst living under the occupation. Each piece of art is a monument to our shared experiences, combining historical events with intimate moments from everyday life. Their collection of work consists of paintings, sculptures, video work, Tatreez and Palestinian food to highlight her heritage's resilience, culture, and eternal spirit.
Seven (7)
Seven (they/them) is a multimedia artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are currently working in between the realms of painting, sculpture, performance, fashion, and photography. Their current practice focuses on dissecting themes related to both transness and femininity, sex work, and recovery from drug addiction - all elements of their personal life as an evolving reflection and practice of vulnerability based in the honesty of self. They are specifically interested in how these identities intersect with the performance of gender and sexuality, and what these performances’ relationship with the construction and deconstruction of desirability and general acceptability looks like.
Evie J Taylor
Evie J Taylor is a multidisciplinary artist and lover of shells, lakes and sounds. Living and creating on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples (Naarm), their work interrogates ideas of identity and memory on the micro and macrocosm. This practice involves a weaving of societal, personal and cosmological meanings, thinking about care, trauma and belonging. Evie’s works are often presented in video and sound installation formats, poetry, and projection.
Sunday
Sunday is a cultural worker born and raised in the Philippines and based in Naarm. They are part of Anakbayan Melbourne (Naarm), a Filipino youth organisation fighting for National Democracy in the Philippines. Their art practice is informed and focused on propaganda that serves the interest of the Filipino masses who are oppressed and exploited by US imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucrat capitalism. With this basis, they believe that art cannot exist in isolation from politics and society as it reflects the activity and relation to production of the people. Their primary art forms are visual arts and poetry with the theme of socialist realism.
kween khali
kween khali is an artist, urbanist, educator, and diaspora auntie with roots from Japan and Italy. Her work navigates the intersections of faith,womanhood, and mixed heritage. Weaving in between poetry and visual storytelling, her practice explores belonging, memory, and the politics of identity. Through text, image, and interdisciplinary mediums, she reflects on the spiritual and material landscapes she moves through, interrogating colonial legacies while imagining liberated futures. Her work is both an act of self-reclamation and an offering—an invitation to witness, reflect, and dream beyond imposed borders and colonial systems.
Sara Jajou
Sara Jajou is a storyteller who works alongside language development, cultural archive and trauma healing. Her outcomes include dance, writing, performance art, sculpture, curation, video and textiles. She often touches on the sensitive; writing when it is hard to make art and dancing when it is hard to write.
Jermaine Ibarra
Jermaine Ibarra, images. Sundin ang puso. #ad
Ryan Campbell
Ryan Campbell is an emerging comic book hypersigil magick practitioner from Melbourne.