Exhibition dates: 10 July – 15 August 2026
Opening Night: 18 July 2026. More information to come.
In the beginning, the sky was not distant. It leaned close to the sea, where stars moved as ancestral presences, guiding life through pattern, rhythm, and story. The heavens and the ocean mirrored one another—constellations reflected in coral, tides echoing the breath of the cosmos.
As Above, So Below brings this ancestral knowing into dialogue with contemporary visual language. Torres Strait cosmology is woven with the pixelated logic of Space Invaders, where descending digital forms hover between play, memory, and disruption. These invaders shift meaning—becoming spirits of a coded sky, or echoes of arrival, intrusion, and transformation.
Patterns repeat across worlds: woven designs, reef systems, and digital grids collapse into one another. The rigid geometry of the arcade softens into the fluid mapping of songlines; pixels dissolve into tides. Above and below are no longer separate, but part of a continuous exchange.
Within this space, the viewer is both witness and participant—held between constellation and current, screen and story.
The work suggests that nothing is truly external. The sky lives within the body. The invader becomes part of the pattern. Here, all things—ancestral, digital, earthly, cosmic—are entangled in an unfolding, shared system of reflection.
Images: Michael Marzik. Courtesy of the artist and Onespace