Strangely Familiar, curated by Ricky Subritzky, brought together new and existing works by Fiona Hall and Fiona MacDonald. It was exhibited at the UTS Gallery, Sydney, from November 1 to December 2, 2005, as part of the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia’s Culture Fix conference.
Strangely Familiar enfolded us all in intricate, insidious and repetitive patterns, bringing old and new relationships between comforts and terrors home. It digested and made manifest violences of imperialisms, showing the strange becoming familiar, and the familiar ever stranger. In its haunted domesticity we encountered after-shadows of collection and complicated folds of capitalism, and found our homes and habits implicated in many kinds of networks and many kinds of horror.
