A&D ANNUAL 2022

Maya Hendler

Maya Hendler is an artist working on unceded Bidjigal and Gadigal Land, a recognition at the core of her Honours work ‘Diaspor-ous’, which reflexively questions how the migrant-self negotiates place-making and home building on sovereign Land. The work explores ideas of dwelling, displacement and how histories are carried from place to place within a field of unresolved futures. Building on an artistic practice across a variety of mediums that has been motivated by social and environmental concerns and ideas around identity, ‘Diaspor-ous’ explores installation as a vehicle of reflection in interrogating migrancy and sovereignty in colonised spaces.