Justine Youssef: 'Somewhat Eternal' 2024EXPIRED
published: 31 Aug 2024, 3 min read, 'EVENT EXPIRED'
when: 31 August 2024 - 19 October 2024 | venue: Justine Youssef: 'Somewhat Eternal' | cost: Free | address: Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000, 68 - 71 North Terrace, Kaurna YartaFrom 1982 to 2000, parts of Lebanon were under Israeli occupation, and the lead used in R’sasa is often extracted from bullets still found in the region. Through this material connection, Youssef asks us to consider colonisation as a curse that inhabits and influences social and cultural life.
Throughout the installation, embroidered textiles are scented with plant hydrosols—aromatic waters produced by steam distillation of plants—using a process the artist inherited matrilineally. Here, Youssef has substituted commonly used plants with blessed milk thistle, burnet rose, damask rose, and Lebanese cedar, chosen for their complex relationships to land subjugation, occupation, and renewal.
Curated by Stella Rosa McDonald, Tulleah Pearce and Patrice Sharkey.
Co-commission by Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, the Institute of Modern Art, and UTS Gallery & Art Collection. It is supported by the Creative Australia’s Visual Arts and Crafts Strategy (VACS) Major Commissioning Projects fund and the Gordon Darling Foundation.
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