Nadia Refaei
 ناديا الرفاعي


  1. Sabaar and Other Counter Archives
  2. A Whisper Echoes Loudest
  3. olive branch (curator)
  4. Thomas’ Garden (co-curator)
  5. Dawit Dersolign (co-curator)
  6. a garden for the things you love
  7. New Energy
  8. Roots
  9. Leading Letters
  10. Rehearsing the Future
  11. Making Ground (curator)
  12. Make Kabsah With Me
  13. 1998-2011 / ١٩٩٨-٢٠١١
  14. Both sides of either wall (co-curator)
  15. In Visible Woman
  16. Plastic Women

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Marian Abboud, Not her Reflection (An ongoing series of cross cultural offerings), 2021 and Hannah Brontë, tellus terra portal, 2021


Making Ground


Marian Abboud, Elyas Alavi, Hannah Brontë, Shiraz Bayjoo & Shivanjani Lal, Dean Cross, Sancintya Mohini Simpson and Shireen Taweel

Curated by Nadia Refaei

Princes Park Magazine, Battery Point, Alexandra Battery and Blinking Billy Point, Sandy Bay

23–4 & 30–31 January 2021

First Nations artists and artists from the diaspora stage an exhibition on sites of colonial ruin: a city park, a suburban hillside, and the shores of the river. Each is home to a former military battery, which the artists augment with video and sculpture, responding to the landscape and histories of each place. Taken together, the exhibition considers displacement, connection and memory in the digital age. A dialogue between past, present and future.

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Shireen Taweel, tracing transcendance, 2018, copper sculptures, dual-channel video: 10 min, sound: 3 hr
Elyas Alavi, Doesn’t it taste of blood?, 2020, neon, acrylic board
Shiraz Bayjoo and Shivanjani Lal, Nadi, 2021, single-channel video and sound: 4.35 min



Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Across Dark Waters, 2019, dualchannel video and sound: 6.52 min
Hannah Brontë, tellus terra portal, 2021, digital print on mesh
Shiraz Bayjoo and Shivanjani Lal, Nadi, 2021, single-channel video and sound: 4.35 min
Shireen Taweel, tracing transcendance, 2018, copper sculptures, dual-channel video: 10 min, sound: 3 hr
Shireen Taweel, tracing transcendance, 2018, copper sculptures, dual-channel video: 10 min, sound: 3 hr
Dean Cross with Nadia Refaei, everyone stone displaced, 2021, Ngunnawal/Ngambri stones, post boxes, text
Elyas Alavi, Doesn’t it taste of blood?, 2020, neon, acrylic board



Images: Cassie Sullivan


Presented by Constance ARI in partnership with Mona Foma







Images: Rémi Chauvin