Acts of Address explores the artwork as a gesture towards another person, place, memory or world — a space where image, material, silence and form become ways of speaking, listening and responding.


Every artwork addresses someone or something. It may speak directly, remain quiet, offer a sign, hold a trace, open a conversation, or create a space for recognition. A work may turn towards a viewer, a place, a memory, a community, an absent body, or an imagined future.

Acts of Address brings together works that explore how images, objects, gestures and materials communicate. The exhibition considers how artworks reach beyond themselves through language, silence, touch, movement, symbolism, protest, ritual, care, intimacy, distance, public voice or quiet presence.

At a time when communication is often fragmented, accelerated and mediated through screens, the exhibition asks what it means to reach another person, to be heard, to remain silent, or to hold space for what cannot be easily said.

Artists are invited to interpret the theme broadly, through painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, collage, textiles, digital work, moving image, sound, performance documentation, text-based work, mixed media or interdisciplinary practice.

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