Join us for the first day of Allison Chhorn's exhibition, Reflections in the Water to hear Chhorn in conversation with John Edmond (Director & Co-Founder for Queensland Film Festival and Brisbane Film Society⁠) speak to the immersive installation that navigates memory, displacement, and landscape along the Mekong River.

Through recreated fragments of archival material, Chhorn transforms the gallery into a contemplative water sanctuary, evoking the Cambodian countryside as both a site of healing and destruction. Water, in this work, becomes a carrier of history, fluid, unstable, and reflective.

Reflections in the Water offers a quiet, affecting space to consider what is remembered, what is inherited, and what continues to flow.

Allison Chhorn

A Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working on Kaurna Land, Chhorn is known for her impressionistic moving-image works including The Plastic House (2019) and Skin Shade Night Day (2022). Her practice explores post-memory and the emotional aftershocks of migrant displacement through film and installation.

John Edmond

John Edmond works around film. A researcher and programmer, he currently runs Container, a screening and publishing series. Edmond has programmed for Brisbane International Film Festival, Queensland Film Festival, Institute of Modern Art, UQ Art Museum and other institutes.

The conversation will be followed by a Q&A.

Explore the exhibition here.

Free with RSVP. Space is limited, early booking is encouraged.

Image by SSND, ACE, Anastasia Comelli. Courtesy of Allison Chhorn

ACCESSIBILITY: The gallery is wheelchair accessible from the Brunswick St entrance. Please note due to current building works at the Judith Wright Arts Centre, the passenger lift is not usable. Bathrooms can be accessed from the Level 1 courtyard entrance of the Judith Wright Arts Centre.

If you have any specific access needs or questions, please either email admin@outerspacebrisbane.org or send us a message on Instagram.

Outer Space is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, the Australian Government through Creative Australia and the Outer Space community.