SPIRAL PASSAGES
12.09.2025 - 18.10.2025
Haydens (exhibition website)
Brunswick East AU
Curated by Jacqueline Stojanović
Lupo Borgonovo, Constantina Iacovou, and Nina Zeljković.
Spiral Passages visualises echoes of the past which continue to punctuate our present moment. Infused with the transportive temporal slippages evoked through nature, mythology, intuition, folklore, and the relic, the exhibition draws together works weighted with spirit and charged by relational pulses that traverse time and place.
Spiral Passages presents new artworks by international artists Nina Zeljković (RS), Constantina Iacovou (EL) and Lupo Borgonovo (IT), culminating in a broad range of mediums including painting, sculpture, moving image, photography, text and drawing. The assembly of their practices celebrates the first presentation of these works in Australia and cultivates reciprocity across their respective practices in both a poetic and pragmatic register.
United through their conceptual methods of re-tracing, each artist acts as a conduit for the manifestation of scenes, memories and marks of times past – collective, personal and spiritual. The process of ‘revisiting’ is enacted using tools of translation, mimicry, and pilgrimage, fining histories into tangible forms to offer blurred visions of distant realities, and the residual essence of those who came before us. Our linear visualisation of history is malleable with each artists offering – the lines curve into transparent spirals, enveloping a single moment that can exist alongside moments past.
Installation view, Spiral Passages, Nina Zeljković, Lupo Borgonovo, and Constantina Iacovou, 2025, Haydens.
Installation view, Spiral Passages, Constantina Iacovou and Konstantina Apostolopoulou, 2025, Haydens.
JACQUELINE STOJANOVIĆ: UNITS
20.06.2025 - 10.07.2025
Drill Hall Gallery (exhibition website)
Canberra AU
Curated by Oscar Capezio
"The tradition of hand weaving is an ancient repository of culture for artist Jacqueline Stojanović. Through her expanded practice of weaving and drawing she manifests the folk traditions of her dual Serbian and Vietnamese heritage. Forging a dynamic interplay between tradition and modernity, past and present, her work shines a light on our contemporary human condition.
Borrowing from the vocabulary of Abstraction, Stojanović reinterprets folk techniques within a contemporary context. Her assemblages, made with a host of materials from the industrial to the domestic, navigate shifts in collective social and material values. The tactile and authentic quality of her hand-crafted textiles emphasise the value of human touch, sustained attention, and collective cultural expression. In Stojanović’s work the values of continuity and craftsmanship stand in reaction against the alienation of the digital and migratory age.
Drawn predominantly from the collection of Anthony Scott, this exhibition presents a selection of Jacqueline Stojanović’s oeuvre as a catalyst for discussion around cultural preservation, identity, and socioeconomic disparities. Here, nostalgia, interwoven with contemporary cultural practice, prompts us to reflect on the active role the past plays in shaping our present and future."
Installation view, Units, 2025, Drill Hall Gallery.
Installation view, Spiral Passages, Lupo Borgonovo and Constantina Iacovou, 2025, Haydens.
Installation view, Spiral Passages, Lupo Borgonovo and Nina Zeljković, 2025, Haydens.
Lupo Borgonovo, OV, OVI, and OIV 2021, felt tip pen on paper, 100 x 70 cm each.
Installation view, Spiral Passages, Nina Zeljković, 2025, Haydens.
