Justine Youssef’s work often begins with moments and places that reconfigure authoritative realities. Her auto-ethnographic films and installations reflect upon the impacts of displacement through forced migration and consider our complicity in reproducing these conditions.
Somewhat Eternal is a multi-sensory installation that draws narrative focus on matrilineal practices and plant histories through new work using scent, video, and textiles, examining how states of refuge can uphold cycles of dispossession; for example, embroidered textiles throughout the exhibition tell of the use of plants in practices of occupation, resettlement, and repair.
Justine Youssef, Somewhat Eternal (film still), 2023, three-channel video, 11:00 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, South Australia
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
31 August to 19 October 2024
South Australia
