Image: Nikhil James Arlo, Tabernacle (detail) 2023. Lost wax copper cast, carved rendering of grandparents’ wedding (Ooty, India). Image courtesy of the artist.
GALLERY ONE | NIKHIL JAMES ARLO
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SAT 03 JUN 4.00PM - FRI 30 JUN 5.00PM
OPENING EVENT SAT 03 JUN, 4.00-6.00PM
FREE TO ATTEND
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Monday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Wednesday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Thursday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 5.00pm
Saturday closed
Sunday closed
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Platform Arts is wheelchair-accessible via our Gheringhap St entrance. Unlocked, accessible bathrooms are available on both ground and first floors.
For accessibility enquiries, please directly contact us at hello@platformarts.org.au
Please note, Platform Arts is a dry venue.
“I am in search of the place that I imagined from stories heard at the foot of Nana’s armchair, a place that simmers in the blends of spices of the food at my family gatherings. As I look through images, I engage with fragments of lives lived by family. In my body I feel a connection to this place, but I am left in search of a sense of belonging.
The Anglo-Indian identity is a complex one, consisting of Indian and British and/or European descent. After gaining independence from British rule, complications arose as to how these people were supposed to live in Indian Society whilst bearing both native and colonial descent. This caused a diaspora of the Anglo-Indian people, which brought my father, his parents and six siblings to Australia in 1970.
I carve these memories, attempting to make these fragments of important places to my family tangible. A journey of mapping and traversing the landscape through story and images. In this action I begin retracing my identity as an Anglo Indian and furthermore what it means to live within the hyphen ( - ).”
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Nikhil James Arlo is an Anglo-Indian artist based in Naarm. Working through sculpture, photography and performance, they explore relationships between, place, object and body, and the intra-action of these elements, or forces. In a chosen site, they seek out histories and functionality to host these traces and implicit presences. Through this they amplify and channel the situational site to explore their energy, identity and sense of dimensionality.
