The Body Is More Than This
400 Flinders Street, Melbourne CBD, Victoria
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A rallying cry and exploration of gender diverse bodies that are more than what eyes can see.
We perceive bodies as borders. Curved spines that push against the weight of the world. Like a rising tide changing the shoreline they are constantly becoming – tender, flexing, magnetic and yielding. Repeatedly repairing themselves, but falling prey to time and the limits of perception.
Curated by Kin Francis, The Body is More Than This presents visual narratives from five artists who identify as gender diverse and nonbinary. Works in this exhibition permeate across many ideas, from reckoning with histories of migration, experimenting with gender expression outside of Western restraints, and defining relationships with lands and family across distances.
Surrounded by the pillars and architecture of the Immigration Museum’s ground floor – Caleb Thaiday, Luce Nguyễn-Hunt, Ari Tampubolon, Indra Liusuari and Kin Francis propose a new body, a new way of seeing past its borders: beyond preconceived cisgender identity and colonial understandings.
Image - Salubrious Peril by Elijah Money
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