"The Foreign Within brings together twelve women artists whose practices confront estrangement, displacement, and the uneasy coexistence of beauty and discomfort. Across bodies, lands, and languages, their works reveal what is unfamiliar, repressed, or othered within colonial histories, patriarchy, and the self.

 

Working within a new gothic, their practice produces work that can be both alluring and unsettling, shifting between beauty and discomfort, the grotesque and the intimate. They draw on lived realities and dark themes, navigating conflict to uncover social and personal tensions. Here, the gothic is not confined to shadowed spaces but brought into the open, revealing shared histories of women and people living in contested lands. Memory, suppression, dreams, and desire emerge in forms that are intimate yet uncanny, unsettling assumptions of belonging and reclaiming ground for what has been silenced."

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Curator, Helen Curtis

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