Opening launch: Wednesday 2 October 6–8PM

new wave knew web nuwavé brings together Emma Salmon (Nyikina) and Hari Sinh’s (diasporic Indian) practices, lineages, and future memories. In this exhibition they weave material and digital forms to string together information, imagery and culture. Being ‘digital natives’ they have found homes on the ‘Web’ and on the ‘Net’. These are double-entendres for their art making as weavers, both physical (string making) and virtual (video-collage). This informs their collaboration – both are from vastly different backgrounds but are united through these webs. Their truths are tied together in the ether, embodied by subterranean cables running under the Indian Ocean. Here they ride a new wave and weave a new web.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Emma Salmon is a Nyikina artist and student based on Wurundjeri land in Naarm’s northern suburbs. Her practice spans string making, set, video, illustration and installation to explore unbroken First Nations memory, spirit and connection in urban, cyber and dream spaces.

Hari Sinh's practice currently intersects sculpture, coding and ‘painting’. Often salvaging all materials (virtual or physical) this congruent and incongruent adaptation is channelled through an equally powerful network-spiritualism present throughout the work. He currently lives on unceded Wurundjeri land.

Image credit: Emma Salmon, EARTHED WIRE, 2024, video still, 16:9

Documentation: Steven Nguyen