Best Before

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• Alex Fimeri ›
• Cam Wu ›
• Lily Arapera Gentile ›
• Ponie Curtis ›

• Alex Fimeri (they/she) is an emerging artist studying, living, and creating in the Western suburbs. Their work is inspired by the environment she grew up surrounded by, wanting to capture the otherworldly juxtapositions – the refineries boarded by lush landscapes. Her practice centres around mixed media works, their art concerning the interconnectivity of organisms over mortality, and the processes of degradation in both natural and manufactured subjects.
• Cam Wu is a Chinese-Australian artist living and working on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land. Her practice is underpinned by an interest in ritual and narrative, bringing together broader histories and personal stories. Cam is interested in the intersections between language, visual modes of communication, and meaning-making. In balancing playful humour and a research-informed practice, she explores sociohistorical connections with a poetic sensibility.
• Lily Arapera Gentile (Te Āti Awa, Taranaki) is an emerging artist living and creating on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation. Her practice feeds from writing and found text and realises itself across a range of mediums. Lily is interested in the tension of the personal and the communal, creating in this space, while considering the conservation her works have with space, and each other.
• Ponie Curtis is a digital media and installation artist living and working on the unceded lands of the Boonwurrung and Woi-Wurrung Wurundjeri peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation. She is committed to finding new forms of creative expression, specifically in relation to ideas surrounding impulsive infatuation through recontextualising luxury brands, advertisement schemes and the seductive charm of capital. Her dizzying abstractions of coded motifs mimic the obsessive yet disorientating passion we often feel for a distant someone or something. Ponie completed her Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2023. Recent exhibitions include Crush Fever at Bus Projects (2024) and DEBUT XX at BLINDSIDE (2024).