Relationships to land and the endurance of ritual and belief are central to the work of Justine Youssef, whose auto-ethnographic films and installations reflect upon the impacts of displacement through forced migration, and consider our complicity in the reproduction of these conditions. Supported by Creative Australia’s VACS Major Commissioning Fund and co-commissioned by UTS Gallery, the Institute of Modern Art and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, Justine Youssef’s solo exhibition Somewhat Eternal (2023) takes form as a multi-sensory installation. Drawing on familial narratives, Somewhat Eternal expands to consider how states of refuge can uphold cycles of dispossession. Through the maintenance and documentation of inherited practices, Youssef prompts a search for hope. Within acts of preservation, fragmented and altered across geographies, lies a belief in futurity and the alternatives it can offer us. Curators: Stella Rosa McDonald, Tulleah Pearce, Patrice Sharkey 3 Oct - 24 Nov 2023 UTS Gallery All images courtesy the artist and UTS Gallery.