Mashara Wachjudy: Phases
13 – 28 March, 2024
Seeing memory reflected…
Moving outwards from a deep interest in, understanding and seeing memory reflected in landscapes - real, digital and fictional. ‘Phases’ finds and forms visual and emotional relationships between; image-making, the artist’s own textile and book collections, her great-great grandmother's beadings, collected objects and materials. Textiles have become a new mode for Mashara to translate photographic dialogues into tactile forms and constructing a new visual language across forms.
”This collection of works are playful and communicative - finding ways and working out the possibilities of intersections between the interests and phases that I find myself in – furniture, food, football and feeling.” Mashara Wachjudy, 2024
Mashara Wachjudy’s practice is centered in image-making that extends from photography to poetry, textile, sculpture and installation. Her practice considers observations, thoughts and feelings surrounding memory, archives, architecture, mythology, cross-cultural experience and the spaces in which these things meet and intersect.
Recent projects and exhibitions include Streaming Surrounds residency and performance curated by Temporary Position; Mengingat 25 Tahun Reformasi with Woven Kolektif curated by Dwiki Nugroho Mukti & Savitri Sastrawan at Cemeti Institute in Yogyakarta, Indonesia; Text Tile curated by Anna Fiedler, Madeline Simm and Tia Ansell at CAVES in Melbourne, Australia; CASCADE with Woven Kolektif at Outer Space in Brisbane, Australia 2021; and in 2021 she was commissioned by West Space to present a solo exhibition for PHOTO 2021 International Festival of Photography. Mashara has exhibited extensively across Australia in spaces including Firstdraft, Bus Projects, Casula Powerhouse, Bankstown Art Centre, Outerspace, Byron School of Art, Seventh Gallery, Cement Fondu, The Honeymoon Suite and Verge Gallery as well as internationally.
Phases, will open to the public on Wednesday 13 March at 11am.
Please join us for the opening celebration on Saturday 16 March 2-4pm.
