My Blood Sings Old Songs, La Trobe Art Institute

Curated by Maya Hodge

Hovering between an ending and a beginning, each gesture holds the knowledge that there’s a certain sadness of memories that cannot be shared with those who were never there. Yet what ties us together is a shared understanding that ripples across cultures and communities, through performance and the spaces between what is known and shadowed.

Through new commissions and existing works, artists Atong Atem, Leyla Stevens, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis (Pitta Pitta), Jenna Lee (Gulumerridjin (Larrakia), Wardaman, and KarraJarri), Sonja Hodge (Lardil), wani toaishara, and Tracey Moffatt, consider how memory is embodied and passed on to honour echoes of legacy, entangled with grief and joy, and cultural storytelling unfolds in gestures and resonance—held within our bloodlines.

_{This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.}