The Mourning After

The Mourning After seeks to explore how we can connect, enhance kinship and create hope in response to the overwhelming sense of permacrisis we face in our daily lives. It seeks to uncover and make sense of different mourning rituals and practices, to form a constellation of grieving moments.

Through this exhibition, the gallery becomes a snapshot of different journeys surrounding grief, and moments of reflection and connection around mourning and loss—from personal to cultural, individual to social. While everyone experiences grief differently, our capacity to come together to mourn can move us into more hopeful, collective actions.

Works consider various tapestries of loss—personal loss (death and non-death related), Climate resilience, Anthropocene mourning, First Nations mourning of kin (human and more-than-human), hashtag media—and will include a constellation of grief hashtags mapped on the wall to flesh out grief literacy frameworks.

Curated by Larissa Hjorth.

Full artist list to be announced.

Paula Mahoney, Jump on through (to the other side), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist. Paula Mahoney, Jump on through (to the other side), 2021. Image courtesy of the artist.

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11am - 5pm Tuesday to Friday

12:30pm - 4pm Saturday

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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