SOS: A Story of Survival, Part III – The Planet

9 November 2024 to March 9 2025

Ari Bayuaji
Ashley Beerdat
Claire Greenshaw
Dan Hudson
Jennifer Murphy
Ludovic Boney
Maggie Groat
Melissa Doherty
Michael Belmore
Nestor Krüger
Robert Houle
Roshan James

Curated by Darryn Doull

SOS: A Story of Survival is a three-part exhibition exploring what survival is, what it looks like and what it means to survive. 

Part I – The Image launched the series from a place of cultural history in the art museum, as artists brought images and histories together to survive in new forms and contexts. Part II – The Body brought issues, frameworks, struggles and successes of local and global significance alongside one another and looked to the body as a tool of survival while interrogating the forces that threaten it. 

The exhibition series has never pretended to have the answers to solve global climate collapse. We are already past all of the tipping points. There is no going back. Instead, the series offers alternative and hybrid nodes, relations and techniques as pathways into the future and of recuperating hope, juxtaposing the individual with community and emphasizing mutual aid. Part III – The Planet draws attention back to the matter of our world: to the rocks beneath our feet, the air in our lungs and the water throughout and all around us.