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Presenting nine contemporary artists whose otherwise diverse work is tied together by their experiences of being young and Muslim in Australia. The featured artists are (almost) all members of 鈥楪eneration Y鈥�, growing up or migrating to Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, and their work reflects lives spent living with and challenging a 鈥榩ost-9/11鈥� construction of Muslim identity.
Abdul Abdullah鈥檚 photography and Fatima Mawas鈥檚 short films starkly confront the contradictions that continue to emerge from anti-Muslim sentiments in Australia. Nadia Faragaab and Idil Abdullahi express notions of 鈥楽omaliness鈥� through domestic objects representing romantic yearnings for Somalia. Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Zahrah Habibullah and Rubaba Haider recollect delicate objects evoking childhood memories and familiar surroundings. Suzi Elhafez deconstructs concepts of Islamic ornamentation and cosmology through the senses, while Marziya Mohammedali exposes the ongoing plight of asylum seekers in Australia鈥檚 detention centres.
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Presenting nine contemporary artists whose otherwise diverse work is tied together by their experiences of being young and Muslim in Australia. The featured artists are (almost) all members of 鈥楪eneration Y鈥�, growing up or migrating to Australia in the 1990s and early 2000s, and their work reflects lives spent living with and challenging a 鈥榩ost-9/11鈥� construction of Muslim identity.
Abdul Abdullah鈥檚 photography and Fatima Mawas鈥檚 short films starkly confront the contradictions that continue to emerge from anti-Muslim sentiments in Australia. Nadia Faragaab and Idil Abdullahi express notions of 鈥楽omaliness鈥� through domestic objects representing romantic yearnings for Somalia. Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Zahrah Habibullah and Rubaba Haider recollect delicate objects evoking childhood memories and familiar surroundings. Suzi Elhafez deconstructs concepts of Islamic ornamentation and cosmology through the senses, while Marziya Mohammedali exposes the ongoing plight of asylum seekers in Australia鈥檚 detention centres.
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