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Ones to Watch: Unseen Amsterdam 2024

Atong Atem | MARS Gallery

The camera offers a bridge between past and present, connecting geographies and generations. Atong Atem (b. 1994) is an Ethiopian born, South Sudanese artist and writer living in Narm/Melbourne. Her work engages with the intimacy of portraiture and photography, providing a portal into the world of the subject in front of the lens. She presents Men In This Town at Unseen Amsterdam, which references the works of 20th century African studio photographers Malick Sidibé, Philip Kwame Apagya and Seydou Keïta.

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Light pieces by Meagan Streader at MARS Gallery in Melbourne, Australia.

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Amazing show by Tricky Walsh at MARS Gallery in Melbourne Australia

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Live From Mars — Programs and Event Documentation

Mars Gallery, Chicago — March 22, 2003 and July 12, 2003 Poetry Center of Chicago

These materials document two installments of the Live From Mars reading series held at Mars Gallery in Chicago in 2003.

The white Poetry Center letterhead sheet served as the public program for the March 22, 2003 Live From Mars IV event and was used by KC Clarke while emceeing the event. Handwritten notes reflect live sequencing and coordination during the performance.

The yellow program (front and back) is for Live From Mars V, held July 12, 2003. This marked the first installment of the series to use a formally designed printed program.

These events brought the Poetry Center’s programming into gallery space, presenting poets and performers outside its primary institutional venues at the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute ballroom. The poetry dance component of these evenings is referenced in contemporaneous correspondence between KC Clarke and Lawrence Ferlinghetti preserved elsewhere in this archive.

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Atong Atem (South Sudan, 1994--) Red Dust Sticks to You (detail), 2022 digit6al print with reflections of LED neon works Banksia and Tulip, 2021

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Sahara, 2020

In these bold, dynamic portraits, seemingly surreal worlds are created and explored by the subjects, full of vibrant colour and life. Encompassing mythology and fantasy, belonging and truth,

Atong Atem continues her exploration of identity, and the ways in which we construct images and stories to understand ourselves and our surroundings

Photograph: Atong Atem/MARS Gallery, Melbourne