In ‘the hands should have no peace’, Pony, Leila Baptist, Claudia Nicholson, Jade O’Sullivan, Andrew J Williams, and Chiluba Young use drawing, illustration and video to express an ‘embodied’ experience deeply connected with community and place. Hands can grip, grasp, gesture, give and take, inflict great harm, or heal. Hands are the restless, wiggling movers, changers and feelers; they can dangle fingers through a perpetually running creek. Presented in association with Perth Festival 2021, the exhibition examines the theme of bilya (river).
Leila Doneo Baptist, Five Exotic Fruits You Haven’t Tried: This Is Not A Self Portrait (video still), 2019, three channel video [22:21]. Courtesy the artist and Cool Change Contemporary, Western Australia
19 February to 27 March 2021
Western Australia
