2025 Program

19 Feb to 11 May

Alex Martinis Roe in collaboration with Katerina Teaiwa, ASKI Contemporary Social History Archives, Gladys Kalichini, Alexandra Juhasz, Andre Ortega and Diana Betanzos
Supported by curator Amelia Wallin

Storytelling Liberation is a new video installation by Australian artist Alex Martinis Roe, and her first exhibition in regional Victoria. Across five videos, the exhibition fosters international decolonial and feminist alliances through the practice of making history. For Martinis Roe, whose practice has long focused on networks of solidarity, making history is understood as a form of liberation; opportunities for building solidarity across gender, class, race lines that mark our world for the better.

Begun in 2022, Martinis Roe’s research led her to identify five diverse international collaborators, including artist and scholar Katerina Teaiwa of Banaban, I-Kiribati; ASKI Contemporary Greek Social History Archives in Athens; Zambian artist and art historian Gladys Kalichini; North American queer-feminist media producer, theorist and activist, Alexandra Juhasz; Mexico City-based activist Andrea Ortega. Thinking with and through their varied practices, this exhibition defines and demonstrates a set of methods to tell stories about liberation movements.

Image: Alex Martinis Roe and Gladys Kalichini, Mnemonic Rituals, 4K video, 15:03, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.