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Afghan Diaspora

In 2022, Humaira Fayazi and Sofie Dieu worked for the first time together on a collaborative project called Afghan Diaspora. With multicultural women of the City of Casey, they explored through the making of clay masks what it means to be an Afghan woman refugee. They organised a series of 8 workshops, the clay artworks were then performed by Humaira and photographed by Sofie. These works were exhibited in November 2022 at the Track Gallery in Mount Waverley.

 

This project was realised in partnership with Multicultural Women Victoria and was supported by Regional Arts Victoria through their Sustaining Creative Workers grant.

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Born in France, Sofie Dieu’s first encounter with art was through church. With a penchant for ritual and spirituality, the artist is best known for her fragile, sombre, and sometimes violent ink paintings and textile works.

 

Poetic and humanist, her practice draws on her journeys to China and Australia. She explores how identity and memory fluctuate according to their immediate environment. Landscapes, people, secrecy, healing, and the dichotomy between light and darkness are some of her recurring themes.

  

Multi-art prizes and award finalist, her work was included in the Sydney North Art Prize, Waterhouse Natural Science prize and the Contemporary Art Award amongst others. In 2016, she worked on the Camperdown Cemetery installation for Sydney Biennale. In 2017, her work will be shown during Vivid and Mental Health Month in Sydney.

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