There is No God but God: Heidi Abraham

4th November - 11th December

Opening Night: 4th November

The exhibition There is no god but god presents a series of text-based works by emerging artist Heidi Abraham and is part of her ongoing investigation into the potency of cultural metaphor. The works are about Egypt, a now topical subject however the works were conceived pre-revolution and derive primarily from the artist's long-term preoccupation with the country. Incorporating text, object and video there is no god but god is borne from a collection of anecdotes about Egypt that have been personally told to the artist.

Heidi Abraham is a PhD candidate within the Sculpture, Performance and Installation studio at Sydney College of the Arts, where in 2008 she was awarded a First Class Honours. Born in Australia with Ukrainian and Egyptian heritage, her PhD concerns itself with cross-cultural positioning and there fore cross-cultural representation in both written text and visual art, central to both her research and studio practice is the notion of text: in terms of cultural language, subjective voice and of its physical manifestation in visual art. Further her PhD explores the notion of political and subjective exile as a mechanism, not of disempowerment but rather of empowerment.