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Trocadero Projects, Melbourne (2026)

18/05/2026

Launching Wednesday 27th May, 6 – 8pm

Join us to celebrate the opening of 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 by Lan Anh Truong in 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 3.

‘Human nature’, when written as a compound noun, collapses two distinct meanings into a single term that speaks solely to the essence of humanity. Nature is reduced to a complementary abstraction, stripped of conceptual weight beside a dominant humanity. 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯-𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 examines how horticultural practices such as bonsai similarly expose this anthropocentric hierarchy, defined by human exceptionalism and the imposition of human ideals onto other living forms. The hyphen disrupts human centrality, instead foregrounding an inseparable coexistence. Through a sculptural reframing of the bonsai, the exhibition restages and exaggerates their formal qualities, making their logic visible and open to reconfiguration.
Lan Anh Truong is a Vietnamese artist working and studying in Naarm (Melbourne). Spanning drawing, sculpture, and installation, her works explore the comic and spatial potential of found and mass-manufactured objects and materials. This often involves combining the rigour of geometry with organic forms in a playful experimentation of colour, form, and composition. Lan Anh graduated from the VCA with a BFA in 2024 and is currently undertaking her honours degree at Monash University.

Image by: Lan Anh Truong, On Air, 2026, pvc-coated steel garden stakes, pvc garden stake connectors, powder coated steel, dimensions variable.

27 May - 28 June

Trocadero Projects is supported by Arts and Culture Maribyrnong.
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18/05/2026

Launching Wednesday 27th May, 6 – 8pm

Join us to celebrate the opening of 𝘞𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 by Saluhan Collective in 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 2.

𝘞𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 is an exhibition of video works by Saluhan Collective that examines the dynamics between audience and performer using Erving Goffman’s concept of ‘front stage’ and ‘back stage’ as a departure point.

Goffman’s theory suggests that individuals present themselves differently in public (‘front stage’) compared to private settings (‘back stage’). The video series expands this idea by examining how Filipino material, cultural, and ideological symbols are presented and interpreted through varying contexts alongside the shifting roles of the artists as performers.

This exhibition builds on a previous video work, Dodong and the Dai’s, which was developed during Saluhan’s Mainit Illusion/Mainit Fantasy commission with Arts House. In Dodong and the Dai’s, artists Catherine Ortega-Sandow, Kenneth L. Suico, and MJ Flamiano reimagine the 1972 song Magellan by Cebuano artist Yoyoy Villame, which narrates the Spanish colonial ‘conquest’ of the Philippines and the resistance of Indigenous warrior, Lapu Lapu. Their reinterpretation incorporates contemporary Filipino aesthetics, karaoke culture, and the queering of Catholic rituals to engage with colonial-migrant storytelling.

We live by inference will present Dodong and the Dai’s alongside a series of new videos expanding on the interplay between the three artists. The new works will provide a ‘backstage’ interpretation of this performance. This interpretation reveals the internal processes and social interactions that shape the ‘backstage’ dynamics while critiquing the implicit relationship between the performer and the audience.

This project was supported by Arts Merri-bek Flourish Arts Grants and Next Wave.

Hero Image Caption: Saluhan Collective, We live by inference (video still), 2026. Photo: Mischa Wang.

27 May - 28 June

Trocadero Projects is supported by Arts and Culture Maribyrnong.

18/05/2026

Launching Wednesday 27th May, 6 – 8pm

Join us to celebrate the opening of 𝘛𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘺 by Hunter Smith in 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆 1

Tent Theory is an ongoing project, predicated on examining models of spatial enclosure and
mythologies of space. Reimagining the tent as a portal in which one can traverse space and time,
this exhibition proposes visual negotiations between realms: public and private, inner and outer,
real or imagined. Informed by urban geographer David Harvey and Henri Lefebvre’s text, La
Production de l’espace (The Production of Space), Hunter’s works seek to question our
understanding of what space is, and obscure its boundaries, resonances and behaviours; offering
environments of fictionalised space and escapism.

Hunter (she/her) is a Naarm-based, multidisciplinary artist and painter, living and working on the
unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung people, the Kulin Nations.
Hunter’s practice dissects mythologies of space through image collection and reproduction,
spanning contested, imagined and extractive spaces.

27 May - 28 June

Image by: Hunter Smith, Sound and Vision, 2026.

Trocadero Projects is supported by Arts and Culture Maribyrnong.

11/05/2026

River Listening Symposium: Before Bluestone Meets Sandstone

Join us for one day of free activities on the Maribyrnong River to practise listening, reflect on place and share knowledge. Tune into the slow time of the landscape and speculate about possible futures while cruising on the river with the Tramboat.
Book via the link in bio!

⏰ When: Sunday 24 May 11am–3:30pm, free lunch provided

🚢 Where: Meet at Footscray Wharf (opposite 60 Maribyrnong Street, Footscray)

‘Before Bluestone Meets Sandstone’ speaks to the geological deep time of the Western Volcanic Plain, which shapes the land of Melbourne’s west. Flowing through the plain, the Maribyrnong River witnesses life, extraction and industrialisation as the west develops and changes.

The River Listening Symposium is a one day place-based public program that invites us to explore listening as a way to connect with the Maribyrnong River and its unseen histories.Through guided listening, performance, artist talks and conversations shared over food, the symposium will create a gentle, reflective space for knowledge sharing.

We invited three artists to respond to this context and share ways of being with the waterway through embodiment, listening and exchange.

With Aarti Jadu, Nicholas Burridge, and Geoff Robinson. Curated by Joy Zhou.
Poster by Zoe Blain.

** Places are limited. We kindly ask you to reserve only one session so more participants have the opportunity to board the boat. If you can no longer attend, please cancel your ticket or let us know.

This Activity is supported through Maribyrnong City Council’s Love Your West Grants Program.

02/03/2026

✨Join our Team! ✨

𝗩𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘀

Troc is looking for new volunteers to support visitor services and programs. As a volunteer, you’ll help invigilate the gallery, engage with visitors and assist with openings, events and workshops. There are also opportunities to contribute to operational and marketing tasks.

No experience? No problem! We welcome everyone and offer a great chance to develop hands-on communication and organisational skills.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆
Fill in the form on our LinkTree by 11:59pm, Saturday28 March or get in touch via email [email protected] if you require an alternative submission method.

Come be part of our team!

24/02/2026

Launching next Wednesday 4 March, 6 – 8pm! 🎉

Avrille Burrows / 𝘖𝘬𝘳𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 / Gallery 1

𝘖𝘬𝘳𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭 presents an evolving body of work centred on okra (bhindi), an everyday vegetable reimagined as a symbolic artefact of sustenance, memory, migration and cultural lineage. Developed over the past two years, the project unfolds through a cycle of practices that include growing, cooking, printing, casting, weaving and the repeated hand-building of ceramic forms. These actions operate as quiet rituals, guided by personal and seasonal rhythms and embodied knowledge. The ritualised repetition of making becomes an act of reverence, transforming the familiar into the symbolic and reflecting domestic, ancestral and tactile labour.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Trocadero Projects is supported by

24/02/2026

Launching next Wednesday 4 March, 6 – 8pm! 🎉

Aldona Kmieć, Stephanie Siu, Florence Wang, Catalina Labra Odde and Fiona Barbetti / 𝘳.𝘢.𝘨.𝘦. – 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 / Gallery 2 & 3

𝘳.𝘢.𝘨.𝘦. – 𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 explores the duality of passion and
frustration that arises within the development of an arts practice. Bringing together a
collection of works born out of the monthly discussions from Trocadero Projects’
Peer-to-Peer Program aimed to support emerging and mid-career artists – Aldona
Kmieć, Stephanie Siu, Florence Wang, Catalina Labra Odde and Fiona Barbetti ask
the question, ‘how do I sustain a creative practice?’ In these works, concepts of
time, conflict and growth become tangled in their intertwining paths. 𝘳.𝘢.𝘨.𝘦.
illuminates the silent negotiations that artists make in order to sustain a creative
practice.

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All images courtesy of the artists.

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16/02/2026

We are excited to spotlight the incredible artists that have contributed to our current exhibition 𝘚𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦!

𝘚𝘶𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦 is an exhibition on process, form and story.

Naimo Omar remakes, makes, composes and recomposes sound, video, print, text and sculpture, in reference to transnational conceptions of Somaalinimo/Somali-ness. The silence of Black life in the archives, and the enmeshment of coloniality in these silences, is resounding. They track a pattern of obsolescence and inertia in its lexis using tools developed within Black Feminist and Deconstructionist discourse. Ultimately, it is a hollowing act of my enfleshed diasporic subjectivity, this practice, a sifting and sifting of form.

Emma Salmon is an artist of Nyikina and Celtic descent who make string, prints, drawings, videos and installations as a form of catharsis and truth telling, promoting intergenerational healing and challenging prescribed notions of Indigeneity and Australian identity.

Lara Oluklu's painting practice is sometimes fixed on looking, and looking again differently: an ongoing whirrrrrr. The relation(s) between literature and poetry, music and ritual, are a point of rapid departure that guide their work. Fragmented connections collide in textured touch. In search of historical pathways, Lara studies and examines their common and/or outlying threads together looking for other possibilities—not reduction—toward something else, another way.

Alanna Baxter is interested in repetition and spectatorship, with particular attention to how modes of viewing are produced and sustained. Working across sculpture, performance and video, their work examines the conditions under which a crowd is addressed as an audience. They are currently developing competencies in karaoke but they also really want everyone to stop looking at them for now.

See our website (link in bio) for more information.
This exhibition runs until Sunday 22 February so come by to celebrate, and stay tuned for our next artist spotlight!

Image credit: Kim Sachs

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04/02/2026

Today we are spotlighting an incredible exhibition now showing at our gallery by artists Ka Yan So and Lex!

春天不會再來 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘐𝘴 𝘕𝘰 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 is a dual exhibition by artist Ka Yan So and her partner Lex, reflecting on an intimate relationship formed and sustained under shifting socio-political conditions in Hong Kong. Built upon experiences of judgement, confinement, suspension, uprooting, and growth, the exhibition traces how personal bonds endure amid precarity.

Bringing together works created between 2021 and 2025, the exhibition traces a gradual transformation in how the relationship between the individual and society is understood—from adolescence into adulthood. Through automatic drawing, video game, text, and sculpture, waves of conflicting emotions surface, gently interrogating de-individualisation and melancholic inertia within conditions of collective paralysis. The exhibition emerges as a vulnerable yet deliberate attempt to imagine the future of a homeland, however softly, another way forward.

Ka Yan is a Hong Kong–born, Melbourne-based artist working across drawing and installation. Her practice investigates how emotion, personal bonds, and identity are shaped by social and cultural conditions, particularly within experiences of displacement and post-colonial intergenerational migration. Using autoethnographic and psychoanalytic approaches, her practice stands as a living archive that preserves and reframes unspoken histories, foregrounds care and empathy as a threshold of collective thinking.

See our website (link in bio) for more information.
This exhibition runs until Sunday 22 February, so come by our gallery to celebrate Ka Yan So and Lex's beautiful collaboration soon! Stay tuned for our next artist spotlight!

Image credit: Kim Sachs

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30/01/2026

Today we are spotlighting one of our current exhibiting artists Wenmiao Xin and her fabulous show!

𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘣𝘪𝘢𝘯, 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳 is a photography exhibition exploring connections between women through bodies, emotions, and relationships. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s understanding of identity as constant and interconnected, the exhibition presents large-scale photographic prints and Polaroids, moving between intimacy and collectivity, private moments and shared narratives. A community program, including an artist talk and performance, extends themes of queerness, feminism, race, intimacy, trust, and connection.

Wenmiao Xin is a Chinese photographer and visual artist based in Naarm Melbourne, Australia. Drawing from her upbringing in the East and experiences in Western cultures, she blends these influences through vibrant color and personal expression. Through photography, she explores intimacy, identity, and emotion, creating images that reflect lived experience and the interplay of cultural perspectives. Her work challenges societal norms and celebrates diversity, offering thought-provoking perspectives through the lens of her camera.

See our website (link in bio) for more information.
This exhibition runs until Sunday 22 February, we welcome you to come enjoy Wenmiao's incredible photography exhibition. Please stay tuned for our next artist spotlight!

Image credit: Kim Sachs

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