Opening launch: Wednesday 15 January 6–8PM

fatigue materials is an improvisational and collaborative project, testing alternative ways of supporting, resisting and relating. Using found and repurposed construction waste, the artists explore the links between their everyday material environment and their embodied emotional patterns to confront their broader lived experiences of trauma, disability, queerness and colonial-capitalism. These precarious structures describe dynamics of fragility, stabilisation and insecurity. Hands-on making offers an embodied way to respond to the immobilisation induced by Western socio-political prescriptions.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

leila doneo and dylan marelić work across expanded mediums including sculpture, video, sound and language. Through collaborative making, they explore interconnected emotional landscapes, grappling with the everyday realities and economic structures of neo-colonialism. leila has acquired a Bachelor of Fine Arts and is currently completing a Graduate Certificate of Journalism. dylan holds a Master of Fine Arts and has exhibited at BLINDSIDE and HAIR. They live and work as uninvited settlers on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation.

Image credit: Courtesy of the artists.