NAOMI HOBSON IN A ‘VELVET ANT, A FLOWER AND A BIRD’ OPENING THIS WEEK AT THE POTTER MUSEUM OF ART

A velvet ant, a flower and a bird evokes a garden of knowledge anchored by three familiar figures from nature — a velvet ant, a flower and a bird. These figures represent a parliament of beings, each carrying symbolic and metaphorical weight that encourage us to reimagine what intelligence means.

Each museum floor is presided over by one of these natural entities, creating a kind of garden where there is no pre-established order, but rather an ecosystem in which the analogue and the digital interrelate to give rise to a fantastic mental realm.

Guest curated by Professor Dr Chus Martínez, Head of the Institute of Art Gender Nature at the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design, Basel, Switzerland.

A velvet ant, a flower and a bird
19.O2.2O26 — O6.O6.2O26
The Potter Museum of Art
Cnr of Swanston St and Masson Rd
Parkville VIC 3O52

Image: Naomi Hobson, Rare, 2O25, pigment print on archival cotton rag paper, 83 x 83cm.