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i cast a larynx


138 Gallery, 18th — 28th September 2025. 

𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘹 is a group exhibition that explores self-generated inheritances and recontextualised memories through affect-driven artefacts. It featuring works by Naarm/Melbourne based artists Lara Chamas, Eric Della Bosca, Ara Dolatian, and Stefa Panoschi. 

The artefacts that result from this mythology-making produce a more-real-than-real autobiography, where recasting personal and inherited histories carry the same weight as our lived reality. 

Familial bonds, past cultural legacies, and perceptions of place all intertwine into affect-driven practices, with each artist attempting to gather the inherited dust of the past - speaking through it in their own forged voice. 



These works collectively tease at the relationships between malleable memory and malleable earth. Time and pressure mould them into new shapes, all with the essence of the original material, but expressing something new.


Documentation by Minh An Pham. 


Opening night, 18th September 2025. Photography by Minh An Pham.