![Image: Atong Atem, from the series [Surat], 2022. Commissioned by Photo Australia for PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography. Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/yellow-dress-2-133x200.jpeg "Atong Atem series Surat")
![Image: Atong Atem, [Saba and Gabby], 2020. Courtesy the artist and MARS Gallery.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Atong-web-thumbnail-crop-200x123.jpg)
Atong Atem (SS/AU)
Monstera Obliqua
06 February 2021 - 07 March 2021
Image: Atong Atem. Courtesy the artist and MARS gallery.
Image: Atong Atem. Courtesy the artist and MARS gallery.
When
06 February 2021 - 07 March 2021
Region
South Precinct
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access, Accessible Toilets, Accessible Parking
To accompany her PHOTO 2021 commission at the Immigration Museum, South Sudanese/Australian artist Atong Atem presents a new body of work at MARS Gallery. Her practice explores migrant narratives, postcolonial practices in the African diaspora, and concepts of identity, home, and liminal space.
Monstera Obliqua uses photographic portraits, archival images and floral scans in sculptural, woven and collage forms. These works indirectly ask how we relate to our present and past, and what we choose to weave to create our concept of self.
![Image: Brook Andrew, [SMASH IT], 2018, single channel video, 28 minutes. Edited by Giacomo Sanzani and Brook Andrew. This project was produced through a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SMASH-IT-Still002-200x113.jpg)
![Image: Zanele Muholi, [Hlonipha, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, North Carolina], 2016. Courtesy Stevenson, Cape Town/
Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York. ©Zanele Muholi.](https://photo.org.au/api/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hlonipha-Cassilhaus-Chapel-Hill-North-Carolina-2016_0491OP-133x200.jpg)
