Through the Square Box

Aidan Sefo

6:30-8:30pm, Friday 24 October, 2025

A screening and artist talk with Arts Project Australia (APA) artist Aidan Sefo, in conversation with Lesley Pinder. In collaboration with Composite Moving Image Agency and APA join us for Through the Square Box, an evening of selected video works by APA artist Aidan Sefo.

The selected video works will feature Sefo’s series of videos exploring specific geographical regions of the world. Using carefully selected found archival footage, political landscapes are displayed in raw, rapid sequences with soundtrack underscores mimicking the chaotic, multifaceted nature of humanity.

Also featured, Sefo’s 2024 video work Offers Last Forever, created as part of the Northcote Penguins (APA’s professional development program) 2024 Miegunyah Creative Fellowship. Sefo and fellow artists responded to decorative arts, furniture, and personal items from the Grimwade Collection, bequeathed to the University of Melbourne by Sir Russell and Mab Grimwade in 1949, resulting in an exhibition at Buxton Contemporary where this work premiered.

A rare opportunity to experience the scope of Sefo’s video practice and hear him discuss his process, influences, and ideas.

Aidan Sefo is an emerging artist who has based his studio practice at Arts Project Australia since 2009. His eclectic practice spans drawing, printmaking, watercolour, and photography, with a transition in recent years to video. His video practice deconstructs found footage — cutting, re-assembling, and re-contextualising images to create video essays that hold a mirror to both the medium and the viewer.

Content warning: Strobing effects, horror themes, images and sounds of war.

Image: Still from Offers last forever, 2024

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