# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Passage: The Art of Atong Atem
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 10:00 am – Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm (+11:00)
- **Event Description**: 📸 Passage: The Art of Atong Atem
📍 The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
🗓️ 30 October 2026 – 14 June 2027
Free – booking not required

Through portrait photography, Melbourne-based South Sudanese artist Atong Atem uses her body as a canvas, adorned with textiles, paint, and symbolic objects. Her work explores inherited traditions and ancestral memories, societal norms around gender and race, and both emotional and physical scars. Richly layered and vibrant, Atem’s photographs connect beauty and design with a lineage of African studio photography, feminist aesthetics, and diasporic narratives.

This is Atem’s first major solo exhibition in Australia, presenting new and existing photographic works by a leading artist in her generation of contemporary photography. Her art tells a story of a culture that persists amid displacement, war and colonialism. She traces a transcontinental and intergenerational journey, echoing the often-coerced movements of people – telling a story of resilience that endures. Noting the neglect of East African contributions in mainstream art history, Atem centres her community and herself in her work, honouring Dinka Bor myths and culture. Photography, historically a colonial instrument, becomes a tool for reclaiming identity and agency. Through this lens, Atem explores how identity is performed both in daily life and before the camera, creating spaces where history, memory, and imagination intertwine.

Learn more: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/passage-the-art-of-atong-atem/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/melbourne/passage-the-art-of-atong-atem/200030637984711
- **Event Categories**: Art, Exhibitions, Sports
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 0

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Melbourne
- **state**: VI
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
- **lat**: -37.817492345815
- **long**: 144.96978733052
- **full address**: Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne,VIC,Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Passage: The Art of Atong Atem being held?
  - **A:** Passage: The Art of Atong Atem takes place on Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 10:00 am to Fri, 30 Oct, 2026 at 05:00 pm at Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne,VIC,Australia.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Passage: The Art of Atong Atem?
  - **A:** Passage: The Art of Atong Atem is organized by National Gallery of Victoria.
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- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Passage: The Art of Atong Atem is ideal for art lovers, trade professionals, collectors, and exhibition enthusiasts exploring the latest in their field. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Melbourne, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Passage: The Art of Atong Atem sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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