In the new exhibition Dainas, multi-disciplinary artist Inga Hanover invites audiences to revel in the celebrations of Ķekatas, the Latvian winter solstice festival. Incorporating installation, textile sculpture, and video the exhibition shares a rich visual language shaped by ritual, folklore, and the occult. The exhibition title refers to a traditional Latvian form of poetry or…

Reincarnations of an altar cloth presents a selection of works from the ongoing series Deities in Temples by Cambodian-Australian artist Linda Sok.  Delving into the matrilineal practice of Pidan, Deities in Temples presents re-imaginings of lost, stolen, collected, and destroyed silk weavings. Pidan, a poly-chromatic weft silk weaving tradition, faced near erasure due to the…

Noriko Nakamura’s limestone sculptures explore the complexity of female embodied experiences. The monumental works of What our bodies bring to us specifically reflect on pregnancy and bodily transformation. Three works – Womb III, Woman, and Birth – relay a narrative of conception, gestation, and birth that is subtly complicated by organic and vine-line patterns and…

Kirtika Kain has an ongoing interest in the social classifications of materials, particularly as they relate to class and status. In her works, gold, bitumen, and turmeric combine to create intricate and luminous surfaces that highlight the aesthetic qualities of her chosen materials and complicate assumptions about their relative high or low value. The tar…

Dense embroidery, delicate chainmail, and found truck curtains come together in Teelah George’s Fragile Armour in a way that both reinforces and extends the material interests that drive her practice. Embroidery is an established and important part of George’s output, represented in Fragile Armour with Wall piece, a large textile composed of thousands of hand…