Between Selves — Flowing Through Identities

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A five-hour interactive exhibition on fluid identity in Melbourne — work on the walls, a passport people filled in themselves, and thirty-five henna designs drawn onto whoever sat down.

Année: 2026
date: 2026.05.22
dimension: Balam Balam Place, Brunswick, Melbourne
media: Exhibition, Henna, Interactive
supported: The University of Melbourne

A — THE SHOW

Thirteen to eighteen hundred, one room, free entry. Painting, photography and film on the walls; a long table in the middle where none of it stayed on the wall.

The long wall

Colour works, from the door

The room before opening

Print grid

The far wall

Between Selves — the poster

B — IDENTITY PASSPORT

Everyone got a blank passport at the door and spent the afternoon stamping it — a page per station, filled in by hand. By five it was the thing people were carrying around, not the thing they came to look at.

The table, full

Cards and stamps

Workshop materials

C — HENNA

Thirty-five designs over five hours, drawn freehand onto whoever sat down. Nothing was pre-planned — each one was worked out on the hand it was going on.

Finished

Drawing

Two hands

On the arm

D — FIVE HOURS

A hundred and fifty people through the room. The installation ended up the most photographed thing at the festival, which was the point — the work was supposed to leave with them.

Visitor

Trying things on

In the room

Screening