DIVINE Issue: 43
Delara دل آرا
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and Create NSW, with Media Partner Broadsheet.
ALUMNI 2024 MOORE CONTEMPORARY
Image: Foreground Erin Coates 'The Shell Driver', 2024. Background: Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Delara, 2021. November 2024
DIVINE CARRIAGEWORKS X RUNWAY JOURNAL 2021
Delara, 2021. 4:11, single channel with sound. DIVINE for Episode 1 of their Journal Issue: 43 Commissioned by Carriageworks, NO SHOW in partnership with Runway Journal, 2021. Delara is a response to the theme of DIVINE for Episode 1 of their Journal Issue: 43, guest curated by Nathan Beard; ‘the sinewy synapses between rapture, discovery, flesh, desire & spirituality’ whilst navigating the planes of memory, history and trauma.
"...The divine pleasures of culturally specific textures and recollections are integral to the potency of Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson's Delara.... The former is narrated by score.... both works translate cultural regeneration through visual poetry that lends an urgency to their overlapping processes of recording." - Nathan Beard, Runway Journal, Guest Editor Issue: 43.
Carriageworks invites eleven artist-led initiatives from across New South Wales for ‘No Show’. Including artist-run spaces, studios, cooperatives, digital platforms and online publications, each group presents an independent program that profiles early career and under-represented artists. Across three weeks, artists and writers work within the discrete but connected spaces designed by architects Youssofzay + Hart. This work was presented through the voluminous Carriageworks Public Space and Bay 19 within the discrete but connected spaces designed by architects Youssofzay + Hart.
Digital platform Runway Journal invites artist Nathan Beard to guest edit Issue 43: Divine. Presented in the space and online, the issue will be developed in parts, with the first including new works and writing by Aisyah Aaqil Sumito, Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, Diego Ramirez and JD Reforma.