Opening Night – 'Somewhat Eternal' and 'Sisters of Lartelare'
Celebrate the opening of Justine Youssef's Somewhat Eternal, and the Kaurna Women's Art Collective’s Sisters of Lartelare exhibitions.
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
31 August 2024
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Join us on Saturday 31 August to celebrate the opening night of Justine Youssef's Somewhat Eternal, and the Kaurna Women's Art Collective’s Sisters of Lartelare exhibitions.
Welcome to Country and speeches start at 4:45pm.
This event is Auslan interpreted.
Somewhat Eternal
Justine Youssef’s Somewhat Eternal is a multi-sensory installation, encompassing video, textiles, text, scent. Youssef’s auto-ethnographic films and installations explore the impacts of displacement and prompt us to consider our complicity in creating it. Relationships to land and the endurance of rituals and beliefs are key ideas for the Darug/Sydney-based artist.
Curated by Stella Rosa McDonald, Tulleah Pearce and Patrice Sharkey.Sisters of Lartelare
Led by emerging Kaurna Leader Bonny Brodie with guidance from Aunty Margaret Brodie, this intergenerational project aims to open new understandings of Kaurna history, stories, and culture connected to Yartapuulti-Port Adelaide. Through focused activity and skill-sharing, the collective creates a place-responsive artwork as a powerful interruption of colonial narrative.
Curated by Rayleen Forester.
Support
Somewhat Eternal is a co-commission by Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, the Institute of Modern Art, and UTS Gallery & Art Collection. It is supported by the Creative Australia’s Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy (VACS) Major Commissioning Projects fund and the Gordon Darling Foundation.
Support
This project is supported by the South Australian Government through Arts South Australia, SA Water and City of Adelaide.
Sisters of Lartelare project partner: Vitalstatistix.
