About Latifa
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Latifa Elmrini Gonzalez is a multidisciplinary artist, producer, curator and writer currently based in Melbourne.
 
Latifa explores an intercultural and plurilinguistic heritage as the cornerstone of her practice. She often draws on the experience of cross-cultural and cross-linguistic Diaspora migrant experiences.
 
Latifa is particularly interested in counteracting negative cultural stereotyping, reproduction and reimagining through the ownership and re-appropriation of image, symbology and language within minority communities. She is interested in the role that visual storytelling can play in the reversal of the ‘Orientalized’, ‘colonial’ and ‘imperialistic’ gaze by the reclaiming of ownership by groups that have historically been cast out as the ‘Other’.

Education


2019 - Victorian College of the Arts (The University of Melbourne/University of Edinburgh)
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Sculpture and Spatial Practice)

Curation

2019 - Schoolhouse Studios, Curatorial support “The Spectators” Georgia Spain, Melbourne, Australia

2019 - Bus Projects Co-curator “MOTHER Group Exhibition”, Melbourne, Australia

2017 - Connection Art Space Curator “A view from the inside”, Melbourne, Australia

Exhibitions

2019 - Brunswick Street Gallery “Portrait Exhibition”, Melbourne, Australia

2019 - Bus Projects “MOTHER Group Exhibition”, Melbourne, Australia

2019 - Assembly Point Vitrines, “Satellite Anthem Exhibition”, Melbourne, Australia
2018 - Coburg House Art Studios “Centre for Unsuccessful Submissions”, Edinburgh, U.K

2017 - Heritage Hall “The Hive Exhibition” Group Show, Melbourne, Australia

2017 - Red Gallery, “Invisibles” Group Show, Melbourne, Australia

2016 - Margaret Lawrence Gallery “PROUD 2016”, Melbourne, Australia