Artoble Podcast: Audrey and Arif Satar, Mundaring Arts Centre

Lyn DiCiero speaks with Walyalup/Fremantle-based artists Audrey Fernandes-Satar and Arif Satar about their current exhibition Bird Song, on show at Mundaring Arts Centre. Working both individually and collaboratively for several decades, their practice intersects at shared memories and histories. In this exhibition the two traverse themes such as displacement and identity, following on from The Bird is Not Mine, exhibited at the 2023 Venice Architectural Biennale, working across sculpture, drawing, text, printmaking, sound and moving images. 

As well as exhibiting their works over decades, the multi-disciplinary artists have undertaken socially-engaged community projects and produced public art both in Australia and internationally. 

Audrey Fernandes-Satar was born in India and grew up in Mozambique. Arif Satar, with an Indian/African/Arabic background, was born in Mozambique, growing up under Portugese facist and colonial rule. The two met at art school at the University of Lisbon in Portugal in the 1980s.

“I often wish I were a plant. I would be able to settle in one place and would be relaxed as long as light and water were available. And since I would have no brain, I would be free from thinking about this or that all the time.” – Hiroshi Sugimoto

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