In this exhibition, three familiar figures from nature – a velvet ant, a flower, and a bird – serve as a garden of knowledge, a parliament of beings, each carrying metaphorical and symbolic weight – each museum floor presided over by one of these natural entities.
Guest curated by Prof. Dr. Chus Martínez and drawing from the University of Melbourne’s Art, Biology, and Classics collections, alongside new commissions and performances, here we are encouraged to reimagine what intelligence means. Contemporary and historic art co-mingle, to envision intelligence as continually evolving, living, interconnected, and interdependent.
Potter Museum of Art
19 February to 6 June 2026
Melbourne
Teelah George, Descending blushes, 2025
Courtesy the artist and Neon Parc, Melbourne
