Running from 12 July to 15 December 2025, memory mirage marks the first Berlin exhibition of Perkins’s ongoing series. Commissioned by the Australian Embassy, it presents layered compositions born from fragments of lived experience, found imagery, and imagined spaces. These works blur past and present, inviting Berlin audiences to traverse emotional terrains that feel both foreign and familiar.

Beyond its aesthetic allure, memory mirage operates as a form of cultural diplomacy. Through shifting colour palettes, ethereal painterly gestures, and recurring motifs, Perkins crafts an atmosphere that transcends language and borders. The exhibition thus becomes a quiet but powerful exchange: it invites viewers to engage with Australian First Nations narratives through a universal sense of memory’s fluidity.

Exhibited in Berlin for the first time, these works signify a deepening of Perkins’s artistic language, emphasizing atmosphere and spatial depth. The viewer steps into liminal spaces, where memory hovers like a mirage—poetic, intimate, and evocative. This invites contemplation not only of personal recollection, but of broader connections between cultures and places.

Memory Mirage is more than a gallery show—it’s a gesture of cultural kinship. Through its dreamlike imagery, the exhibition quietly knits emotional bonds between Australia and Germany, demonstrating how art can serve as a gentle but resonant form of diplomacy.

• https://www.nsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/376-thea-anamara-perkins-memory-mirage.-australian-embassy-berlin/overview/ https://www.nsmithgallery.com/exhibitions/376-thea-anamara-perkins-memory-mirage.-australian-embassy-berlin/overview/