Please join us for the opening celebration on Wednesday 15th October 6-8pm.

I do not know how to choose this world we are to inherit. 

In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman writes, “every generation confronts the task of choosing its past […] inheritances are chosen as much as they are passed on.”

I find myself digging through the rubble of our breaks. In the fractures across time and geography, stitched wounds that never healed. I cannot tell you what it is I am searching for. 

This exhibition is a refusal against the tidy understanding of our experiences. Against the systems that hold captive our most human needs for living. There is more than one way to dismantle the scaffolds of power. There is no one place to begin with the entanglements of our existence. We offer this collection of our resonances, a constellation of things felt within our tricky inheritance. A gentle piecing together to discover what sustains. 

A part of me believes that beneath the debris, somehow, must be what we need to bring with us into that 'future we might yet survive.'1 My fingers encased in dust, I long to find something not held, for what is tender.

I want us to choose the world that we are to inherit.

This exhibition is a part of MAV’s Powered By program in partnership with City of Melbourne.