Exhibition Dates: 22 November – 21 December 2024
Opening Event: 23 November, 5pm – 7pm
Artist Talk with Lynne Zakhour: 7 December, 2pm – 4pm
Onespace is delighted to present The Sacred Shared Labour, the second iteration of Prita Tina Yeganeh’s ongoing series My Soil Farsh فرش. This iteration explores collective labour as a vessel for activating community kinship. In a deeply symbolic and physical act of cultural embodiment, women from Prita’s community came together over 145 hours to hand-grind 45 kilograms of discarded soil from Magan-djin (Brisbane). Through practices of stillness and rhythmic, embodied motions, this act of shared labour transformed the physical task into ceremony. The labour of energy and bodies became an offering—a space for emotional release, knowledge exchange, and cultural remembrance.
The Sacred Shared Labour emerges from a process that reclaims labour from production and commodification, returning it to its roots as a tool for ceremony, healing, and reconnection with heritage, land, and one another.
Image: Prita Tina Yeganeh, My Soil Farsh فرش (Carpet) , 2024. Photo: Thomas Oliver.
Installation Images: Louis Lim. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.
Lynne Zakhour is a Magandjin based multilingual visual designer and illustrator from Lebanon. Her work lies at the intersection between brand development, cultural production, and social impact. Striving to amplify voices across the visual medium—whether that be through multimedia campaigns, international traveling exhibitions, or graphic publications—, Lynne’s process anchors itself in the visual materialization of research, exploring the social, political, and cultural terrain that frames her work. Her illustration and independent commissions reflect her commitment for leveraging alternative actors in musical production and queer, non-normative discourses.
