‘Powdered-Milk Secret’, exhibited at Unassigned Gallery. From the 19th of March to the 31st.

Curated by Ayah Zakout.

Exhibiting artists:

Ayah Zakout, Anya Joseph, Ben Edwards (Benza), Charlotte Hall, Edwin Devril, Piper Kovačić, Patrick Escott.

“‘I call the discovery the Net Rule of Human Particle Relations. At first I was thinking of calling it the Powdered-Milk Secret, but it sounded too much like a detective story in one of my magazines, so I gave that up.’ - Excerpt from How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino.

I invited the artists to venture the powdered-milk secret however they saw fit: literal, figurative.

Birthdays, photographs, zaatar, sheep, home, deer, poetry, rebirth, growth, cheerios, lamps, Werribee South and Greenacre. 

I found the secrecy itself to be a core of the show. The secrecy creates a spectacle: spectacle invokes an audience.

My mum keeps all of my secrets. Pasifika woman that could talk for days, but she mutes when it comes to the parts of me I won’t show anyone else.

I thought of my mother as a safe place, my mother as a memory, my mother as a place to leave the horrible secret. My mother as a means to take the horrible secret down.

Familial relations are a core of this show, I urge you to ask about them- to delve into the crevices of being; existing in the same space as us.

If you don’t already have a persian rug in your home, get one.

The powdered-milk secret doesn’t have to be so horrible or so secret.