A new MAMA collection exhibition called Inhabit Our Everything/Nothing, curated by artist Hayley Millar Baker, has opened at Murray Art Museum Albury. The exhibition is informed by Millar Baker’s understanding of photography as an art form that is not only documentary in nature, but also possesses transformative qualities. Featuring artists Brook Andrew, Tiyan Baker, Cherine Fahd, Phuong Ngho and Val Wens, the artworks presented “go beyond mere representation to offer deep reinterpretations of personal and cultural identities." Hayley Millar Baker explains Inhabit Our Everything/Nothing brings together artists whose works critically engage with the colonial archive, reclaim histories, and challenge the mechanisms of visibility and erasure. "The selected artists employ photography as a medium of resistance and reclamation, subverting dominant narratives by inserting Indigenous, diasporic and marginalised perspectives into the frame," Millar Baker said. "These works interrogate the power structures inherent in visual culture, questioning who is granted agency in representation and the role of images in shaping collective memory. "The exhibition elaborates on the history of possession, encompassing land, culture, and bodies, thereby revealing the tensions between individual and collective identity, displacement and belonging, as well as visibility and invisibility.” Inhabit Our Everything/Nothing is presented as part of 'nginha: gathered here', a season of programming offering new perspectives on the MAMA collection. It is open daily through until 30 November and entry is free.
