Tiyan Baker: Mouth Mnemonica | Memo
What is a mnemonica? This is the first question posed by Tiyan Baker’s solo exhibition Mouth Mnemonica, closing…
Requiem in Power (RIP) | Memo
I type −37.718466, 145.042741 into my phone. They are the coordinates engraved in gothic font onto a stone…
MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection
The opening salvo of MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection is as declarative as the show’s spotlit, all-caps…
Walking Around Herself | Memo
Underneath the house at the end of Collace Street in Brunswick is Peep Show, a local artist-run space.…
Helena Tan, Ajar | Memo
In the classic eighties family horror Gremlins, we quickly learn of three rules that must never be broken…
Knowing Otherwise | Memo
If you are going around prosecuting your belief in the concept of objective truth these days, then you…
Wifredo Lam | 4Columns
Wifredo Lam Aruna D’Souza In his first comprehensive US retrospective, a demonstration of the Cuban artist’s practice as…
Game Worlds: Playable Exhibition | Memo
When AI takes over all standardised work, the only value humans have left is to handle the poorly defined…
Black.2; Family Values; Studio Exhibition
When the Titanic sank in 1912, a ship named the Carpathia came to the rescue of the many…
Man Ray and Max Dupain
What could possibly connect Man Ray and Max Dupain? One was a leading avant-garde artist of the twentieth…
Rose Nolan: Breathing Helps | Memo
The rammed earth fortress that is TarraWarra sits atop a steep hill; a sandcastle scaled-up. Entering requires scaling…
The Key is Under the Mat
I often think about why it’s taken, or should I say, taking, so long for art museums to…