Here&Now16/GenYM – Part 2

Here&Now16/GenYM – Part 2

Marziya Mohammedali

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Dealing with a wide range of subjects, the works offer food for thought. Abdul Abdullah’s photographs Pushback and Reclaiming Territories are striking images with young people emerging from the darkness wearing white balaclavas and other facial coverings.

They are about the misperceptions of young Muslim men after the Arab Spring, London riots and mob violence in Melbourne. The figures are pictured like threatening creatures of the night. They are constructs of the media and signifiers of the frustrations of marginalised and stereotyped young people.

With 70 per cent of the world’s refugees being Muslim, it would be myopic for this exhibition not to address the refugee issue.

In Call Them Home, Marziya Mohammedali has suspended a wooden dinghy and written on it the names of people who died seeking refuge in Australia.

The names are written on the upper level, while below the water line the word “unknown” is repeated.

This is a memorial that comes from the artist’s experience as an activist working with refugees and asylum seekers in Perth and Kenya and listening to a wealth of stories along the way.

The theme of childhood memories runs throughout the show.

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