‘Queer is, after all, a spatial term, which then gets translated into a sexual term, a term for a twistedsexuality that does not follow a “straight line”… The spatiality of this term is not incidental.’Sara Ahmed, 2006. Queer Phenomenology, 67. In rūḥ al-rūḥ – jan-e janān, Ayman Kaake is twisting. His body, projected onto sheets […]

Tera Echo – Daisy Dale CollierBlak Dot Gallery12 July – 3 August 2025 At the gallery entrance I’m greeted by the exhibition title, Tera Echo, underscored with red ochre dragged across the wall, a handwritten epigraph of Country and kin. Beyond the partition wall, the room is painted black like a night sky turned inside […]

Sarah Low, A Wild and Fragile Coast  Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy VIC 18.04.24 – 05.05.24 On Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula, I run out of adjectives and exhaust all expletives. The intensity of the landscape seems to ask for nothing less than a total obliteration of the self; a sacrifice of one’s body plunging into the turbulent […]

Futures Gallery, Collingwood, VIC Alice Ramsden – Murmurations 06.04.24–04.05.24  The blue in Quiescence embodies what the title suggests: a stillness, a latency, a tenuous space between calm and activity. Fading and blending into the surrounding hues, it seems a dampened blue, reminiscent of water damage. A blue conceded, yet, also, a blue birth. A blue […]