Know Thy Neighbour #3: Elham Eshragian-Haakansson

Working closely with the Victoria Park Community Centre, video artist Elham Eshragian-Haakansson articulates through moving image, text, and installation, the deep complexities embedded within the experience of home/less/ness felt by the community of Victoria Park. 
 

Throughout the period of her residency, Elham thoroughly consulted with St. Mary’s Outreach Service, creative arts therapist Cara Phillips, and residents within the neighbourhood, in order to respond with resonance and sensitivity to the ways in which local people have internalised the changing built landscape of Victoria Park. 
 

Paralleling her own experiences of displacement from a migrant perspective, Elham generates a poetic language to unearth the emotional embodiment of place. 

The Know Thy Neighbour #3 exhibition continues until March 25, with gallery opening hours Mon – Fri 9.30am – 5pm. 

View the catalogue here.

Image courtesy Emma Daisy.

Explore our current programs

Know Thy Neighbour #3 (2021-23). Know Thy Neighbour #3 investigates notions of place, sites of interest, networks, and social relationships with partner communities.

Rural Utopias (2019-23). Rural Utopias is a program of residencies, exhibitions and professional development activities organised in partnership with 12 Western Australian rural and remote towns.