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You Can Use My Phone

Jemi Gale, Sol Fernandez

30 Jan–1 Mar 2025

In You Can Use My Phone, our walls speak, low and warm, blending little hands, big thoughts, and all-encompassing feelings. This exhibition, both new and familiar, is an offering of depictions that rise from the shared voice of Aunty Jemi Gale, Sol Fernandez and her children and collaborators Blu and Zeia Fernandez Nitor-Zammataro. Here, paintings are not just seen; they are felt — reaching out to little hands. Intended to be felt by the crawling, toddling, wide-eyed, and those who care for and live amongst the young.

Our moments together are sharing in food, and drink, and sun, and paint, and puzzles, and snacks, and chores, and offerings. Hiding pointy things, chasing after quick yet little legs, pausing in between conversations to answer tedious and deep questions. Negotiating with time, attention, reason.

For Sol, collaborating with her children is an extension of the daily dance that is parenting, an innate part of life as a family of artists. Aunty Jemi, holds a bridge between the familiar and the outside world for Blu and Zeia. A burst of joy that carries no weight of expectation, a presence and collaboration that could go on for hours in the hopes that Aunty will stay for dinner, maybe stay over, come with us to run errands — keep experiencing our life with us.

You Can Use My Phone speaks to the intimate exchange of resources, the sharing of spaces and tools, and the blurred boundaries between personal and collective experience, especially within families and extended families.

Onsite, Exhibition
Overview

You Can Use My Phone speaks to the intimate exchange of resources, the sharing of spaces and tools, and the blurred boundaries between personal and collective experience, especially within families and extended families.

Exhibition Opening: 30–28 Jan 2025, 7am–9am

This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.

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Working on unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Blindside pays respect to Elders, past, present and emerging.


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Working on unceded sovereign land of the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, Blindside pays respect to Elders, past, present and emerging.