Saluhan Collective

Archival aesthetics

20

September 2023

20

Sep

2023

13

Oct 2023

Gallery 1, 2, 3

Archival aesthetics

Saluhan Collective

20

September 2023

20

September

2023

13

October 2023

Gallery 1, 2, 3

Archival aesthetics is a group exhibition curated by Saluhan Collective featuring the work of Filipinx artists Aida Azin, Catherine Ortega-Sandow, Cinema Bahala Na, Jenn Ferguson, June Miskell, Kenneth Suico, MJ Flamiano, Skye Newton, Ranima Montes and Theresa Angela with contributions from BIPOC community living and working in Naarm.Underpinned by a post-diasporic approach to exhibition-making—Archival aesthetics is informed by Filipinx identity and nostalgia, but seeks to push back against prescribed notions of authenticity and belonging often attributed to our practice. Showing the works of contemporary artists working in video, painting, installation, sound and printmaking, the exhibition takes place throughout Seventh Gallery and includes a new collaborative installation with contributions from Saluhan’s growing community.

Archival aesthetics is a group exhibition curated by Saluhan Collective featuring the work of Filipinx artists Aida Azin, Catherine Ortega-Sandow, Cinema Bahala Na, Jenn Ferguson, June Miskell, Kenneth Suico, MJ Flamiano, Skye Newton, Ranima Montes and Theresa Angela with contributions from BIPOC community living and working in Naarm.Underpinned by a post-diasporic approach to exhibition-making—Archival aesthetics is informed by Filipinx identity and nostalgia, but seeks to push back against prescribed notions of authenticity and belonging often attributed to our practice. Showing the works of contemporary artists working in video, painting, installation, sound and printmaking, the exhibition takes place throughout Seventh Gallery and includes a new collaborative installation with contributions from Saluhan’s growing community.

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Saluhan Collective

Saluhan is a Filipinx/o collective based in Naarm, Melbourne on Wurundjeri Country. Saluhan was created to establish a network between creatives in Australia and the Philippines and has since expanded to include collaborative projects that combine arts, activism, and community development.

Aida Azin

Aida Azin Artist Aida Azin is a painter, art facilitator and community organiser based in Melbourne on the land of the Wurundjeri and the Boon Wurrung people. Born to Iranian/Filipina parents and raised in an Australian context, her practice advocates for conversations about shame as a failing political tool, first-generation migrant guilt, racism, Whiteness, dreams, identity, food, and culture. Aida is a collaborating artist and organiser in Saluhan collective, an ongoing art project that fosters connections between artists within the Philippines and artists within Filipinx diasporas across Australia.Her visual art has been shown in galleries such as Fontanelle Gallery (SA), Format (SA), Blak Dot (VIC), Seventh Gallery (VIC), Project 20 (the Philippines), First Draft Gallery (NSW), FELT Space (SA), Ace Open (SA), ArtsHouse (VIC), Bus Projects (VIC), Blindside (VIC), and Nexus Gallery (SA).She has a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Art from the Adelaide College of the Arts (2015). In 2017 Aida completed her honours year in painting at the University of South Australia where the outcome of her research on the effects of institutional racism in the visual arts resulted in the artwork ‘Brown Pillars’.

Kenneth Suico

Kenneth Suico is an artist residing and working in Naarm/Melbourne. Born in Cebu, Philippines, they jump across a broad range of mediums, employing the modes of photography, video, pop song performance and installation in their practice. The common motifs threaded into Suico’s works are acts of repurposing or appropriating what are considered Western-based mythological narratives and imagery and skewing them into their personal history and cultural superstitions.

MJ Flamiano

MJ Flamiano is a visual artist, creative producer and arts worker of Anglo and Filipino ancestry with roots in Luzon and the Visayas. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (First Class Honours) from Monash University Art Design and Architecture and a Diploma of Library and Information Services from Victoria University. She endeavours to present critical and often playful investigations into sites and their cultural significance. Her present focus is on exploring Filipinx histories and diaspora through solo and community projects in printmaking, video, installation and text. She is a Creative Director of Saluhan Collective, a Filipinx/o artist collective based in Naarm, along with Catherine Ortega-Sandow and Founder Aida Azin. She is also a Co-Director of Pagbasa Archive with Catherine Ortega-Sandow, a new Filipinx archive of text, art, object, film and sound based at Mission to Seafarers. She is a member of Sunshine Print Artspace Artist Collective and currently works at Incinerator Gallery.