What do you do when your sun burns out? Rebuild your life in darkness.
Mariam Benjemaa is a multi-disciplinary artist, musician and designer who resides in Naarm, Australia. Practising in mediums such as collage, painting and digital illustration, Mariam creates artwork that reflects their mood and emotions, often taking inspiration from music and the atmosphere it evokes. A visual portrayal of grief and loss, “When the sun burns out” explores the process of coping with death, heartbreak and the emptiness that it leaves behind.
I would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of this land that I live on, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin nation, I pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. This always was, and always will be Aboriginal land.
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In loving memory of my beautiful mother Wendy, I will swim against the tides of time that pull you away from me forever.
