HAYLEY MILLAR BAKER CURATOR OF ‘INHABIT OUR EVERYTHING / NOTHING’ AT MAMA

Inhabit Our Everything / Nothing is a MAMA collection exhibition curated by artist Hayley Millar Baker. The exhibition is informed by Millar Baker’s understanding of photography as an art form that is not only documentary in nature but also possesses transformative qualities. The artworks presented “go beyond mere representation to offer deep reinterpretations of personal and cultural identities.”

“Inhabit Our Everything / Nothing brings together artists whose works critically engage with the colonial archive, reclaim histories, and challenge the mechanisms of visibility and erasure. The selected artists employ photography as a medium of resistance and reclamation, subverting dominant narratives by inserting Indigenous, diasporic, and marginalised perspectives into the frame. These works interrogate the power structures inherent in visual culture, questioning who is granted agency in representation and the role of images in shaping collective memory. The exhibition elaborates on the history of possession, encompassing land, culture, and bodies, thereby revealing the tensions between individual and collective identity, displacement and belonging, as well as visibility and
invisibility.” – Hayley Millar Baker.
Inhabit Our Everything / Nothing in-conversation event:
Hear from artists D Harding, Hayley Millar Baker, and Jeanine Leane as they discuss Inhabit Our Everything/ Nothing and the new iteration of Jeanine Leane’s poem Nginha. These works mark the next phase of the nginha artistic program, celebrating the first decade of MAMA in three seasons. Moderated by Jerome Comisari. FREE event. Book here.

Inhabit Our Everything / Nothing is presented as part of nginha: gathered here, a season of programming offering new perspectives on the MAMA collection.

Inhabit Our Everything / Nothing
22.O8.2O25 — 3O.11.2O25
Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA)
546 Dean Street
Albury NSW 264O

Image: Tiyan Baker, Installation view National Photography Prize, 2022.
Image courtesy of Jeremy Weihrauch & MAMA.