Slow Intimacy (2022)
As a response to the systemic harms of slow violence (such as corruption, poverty and the environmental crisis), this exhibition project brought together the art and design of select artists as a means of cultivating hope and care.
Reaching across different venues, the exhibitions investigated the slow intimacies involved in the making of art but also engaged with intimacy as subject. Slow intimacy is used as a symbolic framework to signify interactions that are enduring and unfolding, whether between humans themselves or humanity and non-human worlds.
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The Story that Travelled (2016)
The Story That Travelled is a photographic interview project that examines how LGBTQ refugees use visual and textual self-representation to convey their life experiences.
This project is geared towards producing a more nuanced perspective on how migration, asylum and exile are understood by refugees themselves; that is, how refugees choose to represent their identities, histories, and sense of a future within the spaces and circumstances that they currently find themselves.
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Lingering Absences (2013)
Lingering Absences: Hearing Landscape Through Memory featured a visual and auditory installation of the Eoan Opera Group’s historical records.
By following the grain of voice, landscape and image, this exhibition project investigated the various layers of memory that sediment the Eoan Group’s complex history. Instead of presenting a contained and resolved historical narrative of the Eoan Group, this exhibition provided a space for experimentation to test the way in which memory, archival material and sound can be used in curatorial practice.
Ernst van der Wal 