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no rock no flower — Andrea Illés, 2025.

West Space

Andrea Illés

no rock no flower

West Space presents the first major solo exhibition by Naarm/Melbourne based artist Andrea Illés. Andrea Illés is a performance artist whose auto portraits explore the relational chasm between self and other. Merging dance, text, sound, and video, her enquiry emerges from the agony and bliss she feels being perceived and, often working with states of overwhelm, Andrea is interested in the possibilities found when bodies fail.

no rock no flower explores the hyper-vigilant relationship that trans women have to the images they make with their bodies. Adapted from research into cultural mythology and the tension between its transcription and transmutability, the work will entwine translations of ancient events with the artist’s experiences of love, desire, identification, and her relationship with her own image.

6 September—25 October

West Space

30 Perry St, Collingwood VIC 3066, Australia

westspace.org.au

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