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Exhibition
Melting Point: Wati Wai!
22 Oct 2027 - 16 Jan 2028
Galleries 8-11
Free entry
We take what is already here, from manta, from the land, and create beautiful work out of nothing. The car becomes our platform, our voice, our way of storytelling and moving forward. Metal becomes liquid, then becomes sculpture. It can become anything.
Melting Point: Wati Wai! ignited at Mimili, in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands brings together Mimili wati (men) through Country, fire, cars and new ways of making.
Grounded in the growing momentum of creative experimentation by men at the Mimili Maku Wati Studio, Melting Point: Wati Wai! unites artists, community members and specialist technicians to collect, melt and cast salvaged aluminium car parts on Country. Mimili wati, Mimili way.
For Tarnanthi 2027, the artists have developed a major sculptural presentation shaped by Country, community and fire.
Presented in partnership with Mimili Maku Arts