The Pool Grant No. 14
Teva Cosic —
Tillsammans och Isär
The Pool Collective Presents
The Pool Grant No. 14
Teva Cosic —
Tillsammans och Isär
10—26 July
126 Rupert Street
Collingwood
Opening Night
Thursday 10 July
6—9 pm
Artist Talk
Saturday 12 July
1—3 pm
Tillsammans och Isär contemplates the nature of home and how our cultural inheritances shape the ways we navigate what it means to belong. Responding to my own mixed Swedish heritage, the work negotiates between memory and fabulation. It seeks to address the intimate strangeness of being both at home and removed from it.
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Tillsammans och Isär has been made possible via a development & exhibition grant from The Pool Collective.
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10—26 July
Gallery open Thursday through Saturday, 11—5 pm or by appointment via georgia@thepoolcollective.com
All are welcome to attend opening night from 6 pm, Thursday 10 July.
The artist talk on Saturday 12 July will commence at 1 pm and will be moderated by The Pool Grant No. 11 recipient, Nicholas Hubicki. Refreshments will be provided. To allow us to manage numbers, RSVP your intention to attend to georgia@thepoolcollective.com
Further reading; Does Anyone Remember Us: Teva Cosic on Family, Folklore & Image Making.
Teva Cosic, The Pool Grant 2024 recipient, announces her debut solo exhibition, Tillsammans och Isär (Together and Apart), exhibiting from 10—26 July at 126 Rupert Street, Collingwood. This bold and vivid photographic collection intertwines Cosic’s Swedish childhood with her home in Australia. Through folkloric archetypes and inverted markers of family and femininity, Cosic offers a profound exploration of themes such as dislocation, motherhood, and the complex concept of home.
“This work addresses broader themes of migration, identity, home, and belonging, drawing on personal experiences as a second/third generation migrant living in Australia,” Cosic stated. “I’m interested in how culture is carried with us from one country to another — how it’s passed down, documented, remembered, forgotten, told, re-told, enacted, fractured, and pieced back together. The works invite viewers into a realm of wonder and uncertainty, featuring visuals that are both intimate and surreal, spontaneous and carefully staged.
“I definitely use photography as a way of trying to make sense of the world. There are all these things we can’t explain. Like the nature of life and death.
It’s inherent in why we make art. Who remembers us? Does anyone remember us? Perhaps someone will recall an image I made, who knows? Perhaps it doesn’t matter.”
Teva Cosic (b. 1994) graduated with First Class Honours and the Vice-Chancellor’s prize from the RMIT photography program in 2021. Her research and practice delve into the intricate dynamics of family and cultural history while intersecting with broader ideas of identity, migration, and belonging. She is a previous finalist of the National Photographic Portrait Prize.
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Launched in 2010, The Pool Grant is an initiative of The Pool Collective that provides a $10,000 cash grant, additional exhibition funding to the value of $10,000, and a year of mentorship from Pool’s artists and makers to conceptualise and produce a solo exhibition. The Pool Grant was created to support the development of emerging talent in the region. Teva’s exhibition represents the final Grant in its current format. On opening night, a formal announcement regarding the future direction of the Grant from 2026 onwards will be made.
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