Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning, Leonie Brialey, Siri Hayes

Curated by Chantelle Mitchell & Jaxon Waterhouse

How many worlds are within, or nested amongst, this one? Is it possible to traverse them, and what might act as the tethers or links between them?

In a restless world like this is emerges in response to two works held in the City of Darebin collection; Siri Hayes’ large-scale photographs, Lyric Theatre at Merri Creek and Crossing the Merri (both 2003). Inviting responses from Anni Hagberg, Katie Paine, Katrin Koenning and Leonie Brialey, this exhibition reverberates outwards from its sources—the Merri Creek as a physical space, but also the Merri Creek as presented within Hayes’ works—to consider what might reside in the generative spaces within and between worlds.

Image credit – Anni Hagberg. Husks (left) & Louvres (right) 2022-2024. Photography: James Henry