Correspondences, Hillvale Gallery, Naarm Melbourne, 1-31 May 2026
Correspondences proposes a dialogical exchange
between bodies and land, through the work of
eight lens-based artists who each engage with ideas
of place and space. Working in a settler/colonial
context on unceded land, each artist is informed
by eco feminist critique that proposes a relational
and intersectional ethic of care for ecologies in
our current climate crisis.
primary mode of expression
precisely for its
complicated entanglement with the colonial
history of landscape photography. Subverting
dominant visual representations of bodies;
in this case variously female, queer, non-male
and non-white, the exhibition proposes an
interconnected and reciprocal exchange
between body and place, photographer and subject.
Included in the exhibition is an essay
Working from the middle by Kelly Hussey-Smith.
