Artists: Razia Ghazal, Sha Sarwari, Alia Qasim Zada, Tamana Alizada, Sher Ali, Reza Foladi
Curated by Alia Qasim Zada and Elyas Alavi
Choghچوغ is the Hazaragi word for “thread”, something that binds, repairs, carries memory, and connects one life to another. A thread can hold things together. It can also show where something has been torn and carefully mended.
Choghچوغ brings together six Australian-Hazara artists whose works speak from lived experience. This exhibition explores migration, identity, gender, and belonging through painting, textiles and installation. For Hazara people, questions of home, loss, survival, and visibility are part of personal and collective experience. It is carried across borders, languages, and generations. Across the exhibition, thread becomes both material and metaphor. It speaks to family ties, inherited knowledge, memory, storytelling, and the quiet strength of things made by hand.
This exhibition is a space for connection as much as reflection. What joins these artists is not sameness, but a shared strength: the urge to hold on, to speak, to remember, and to make. In that sense, thread is not only something that connects the past to the present. It is also something that helps us imagine a future.
Join us at the artist talk for Chogh چوغ on Sat 19 September from 12pm- 2pm. Free to attend, all welcome. Click here to register your attendance.