Molten Tongues: Incinerator Gallery

Ali Tahayori, Ara Dolatian, Yhonnie Scarce

31 Jan - 28 Mar 2026

Molten Tongues speaks in the primal, alchemical language of fire—a force that warms, consumes, ignites, transforms. Fire is at once origin and omen, a source of life and an agent of destruction. This exhibition brings together works by 28 contemporary Australian and international artists who engage fire as material, metaphor, and memory—tracing its roles across ritual and industry, ceremony and combustion, love and loss, technology and ecology. Across cultures and temporalities, fire has shaped worlds. From First Nations land management to funerary burning of ‘hell banknotes’ to the industrial architectures of waste and energy, Molten Tongues explores the many tongues through which fire speaks—molten, flickering, fierce.

Ali Tahayori | Ara Dolatian | Dr Bon Mott _/\_ | Cheng Ran | Dr Christian Thompson AO | Claybia (Cassandra Chilton and Molly O’Shaughnessy) | Diego Ramírez | Diogo Evangelista | Emily Parsons-Lord | Felix Saturn | Glynn Urquhart | Hannah Hallam-Eames | Iluka Sax-Williams | Ioanna Sakellaraki | Joshua Serafin | Jenna Lee | Makiko Ryujin | Michael Jalaru Torres | Moorina Bonini | Morehshin Allahyari | Naomi Blacklock | Nicholas Burridge | Priyageetha Dia } Sha Sarwari | Shireen Taweel | Yhonnie Scarce | Yumemi Hiraki
Curator: Jake Treacy