Perimeter Editions × Monash University Museum of Art / April 2026 / 208pp / OTA-bind softcover with flaps / 17 × 24cm / ISBN 978-1-922-54565-7 / $65 / First Edition of 800 / Editors: Stephanie Berlangieri and Pip Wallis / Texts: Ariana Reines, Sriwhana Spong, Vera Mey, May Adadol Ingawanij, Tessa Laird, and Rebecca Coates / Design: Narelle Brewer for Perimeter Bureau / Contributing editor: Dan Rule
This co-publication accompanied the first major solo exhibition in Australia of London-based Balinese–Aotearoan New Zealand artist Sriwhana Spong. Often beginning with an image, text, historical trace, or living organism – a small or contingent encounter –, Spong follows these traces through experiential and research-based processes, developing works that reframe understandings of time and the entanglement of human and non-human life. Together with new texts, a personal text by the artist reflects on questions of inheritance, naming, and cultural transmission; spanning drawings, film, sculpture, textiles, and new commissions, mist moves through HA HA HA as a metaphor – signifying instability, unknowing as a means of knowing and refusal of cultural reductionism.
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