This Winter, uncover the stunning, heritage-listed gardens and galleries of Bundoora Homestead and experience three thought-provoking exhibitions: a new group exhibition titled Taking Back Language; Hootan Heydari’s installation Remembering to Forget; and You, Me and Everything Around Us, a showing of works by artist Sammaneh Pourshafighi.
Across our upstairs galleries, Bundoora Homestead is excited to present Taking Back Language. This exhibition showcases a selection of works by acclaimed Aboriginal artists who engage with text to reclaim language. Using different mediums, works by Uncle Brian McKinnon, Fiona Foley, Jazz Money, Jenna Lee, Kait James, Karla Dickens, Mia Boe and Peter Waples-Crowe examine the ways in which words can be used to reveal, challenge and subvert different power structures. Taking Back Language explores the diverse ways in which artists are reclaiming power through word and art.
Remembering to Forget is a new installation by Hootan Heydari, examining history, place and memory. Photographs of personal significance are transferred onto plaster, a material rich in the symbolism of fragility, strength, healing, and domesticity. These are arranged across the floor; you can feel them cracking under foot, symbolising the inevitable erosion of memory.
Explore You, Me and Everything Around Us, a collection of works by multidisciplinary artist Sammaneh Pourshafighi, that navigates the artist’s autobiographical and familial relationships, tracing the shifting boundaries between family, environment, memory, and self. Through diverse materials and approaches, seemingly disparate forms – documentary, cartographic, and experimental gestures – are placed in dialogue with each other.