Club Ate: In Muva we trust

Enlighten 2020

Know My Name
28 Feb – 9 Mar 2020

Bhenji Ra, for anito | all idols, 2017, digital photography by Tristan Jalleh

About

Commissioned for the Enlighten Festival in 2020, Warrang/Sydney-based collective Club Ate’s (Bhenji Ra and Justin Shoulder) animated projection In Muva we trust 2020 bathed the National Gallery’s iconic façade over eleven nights with mythic ancestral beings and landscapes to show how family and community can together find ways of living at one with the environment. The work was a celebration of Australia’s diverse communities. In Muva we trust depicts a world – both real and imagined – that draws from the artists’ shared Filipino ancestry and close connection to Australia’s LGBTQI+ communities.

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A winged figure silhouetted in front of a dark blue sky

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