Save the date, 11. October 2025
Basel, Switzerland

Rainbow Serpent, Rustling Wind

Solo Exhibition Azura Silberschmidt

In the shadow of Queensland's sugarcane fields, where the wind moves through monocultures and buried histories, two distinct photographic approaches enter into dialogue. One adopts a journalistic lens; the other, a poetic and critically fabulated form. Together, they weave image, story and multiple perspectives into a layered reflection on land, legacy and loss. Framed by the sugar industry's colonial foundations in the 1860s and its ongoing impacts today, Rainbow Serpent, Rustling Wind traces the entangled relationships between people, place and more-than-human worlds. It asks: how do the landscapes we inhabit also inhabit us and what might photography reveal about our complicity within enduring systems of settler colonialism and global food production? Through archival fragments, narrative and embodied observation, the exhibition offers a space for reckoning, remembering and reimagining.