I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore – Gallery Exhibition
Highlights
- Explore evocative sounds and images that connect Australia, India, and Fiji at Platform Arts' Gallery Two.
- Join the opening event on 20th February for insightful floor talks with artists Shivanjani Lal and Aninidita Banerjee.
- Experience a free exhibition that delves into histories of Indenture, grief, and memory in a unique landscape.
- Discover a new artistic vision that challenges perceptions of nature and identity in Geelong's vibrant cultural scene.
Platform Arts presents a new commissioned work by Shivanjani Lal.
‘I will be the waves and you will be a strange shore’ is a new work that explores sounds and images from Shivanjani Lal’s time spent in India, Australia, and Fiji, exploring shorelines and sounds connected to Indenture.
It is open to the public in Gallery Two of Platform Arts.
This exhibition is free to attend.
Join them on 20th February for the opening event. This includes floor talks with Shivanjani Lal as well as Aninidita Banerjee who opens another exhibition at Platform Arts on the same evening.
Register for the opening event through their website.
The work is a lamentation, beginning from the shoreline, and soundings that speak to histories of Indenture, grief, and the slippages caused by holding onto histories that are slipping away.
This exhibition forms part of the what it means to remember thematic.
Platform Arts is supported by the City of Greater Geelong, Creative Victoria, Creative Australia, and the Anthony Costa Foundation.
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