Thea Anamara Perkins' memory mirage presents a deeply personal yet universally resonant exploration of memory’s fluidity. In this body of work, Thea continues her memory mirage series to draw on fragments of lived experience, found imagery, and imagined spaces to create layered compositions that blur the boundaries between past and present, truth, and fiction.
Commissioned by the Australian Embassy in Berlin, the series reflects Thea’s interest in the ways memories are constructed, distorted, and ultimately reinterpreted over time. Through shifting colour palettes, delicate painterly gestures, and a rhythm of recurring motifs, each work evokes the sensation of revisiting a half-remembered place – familiar yet intangible.
Exhibited for the first time in Berlin, memory mirage marks a significant development in Thea’s practice. These works expand her visual language with a heightened focus on atmosphere and spatial depth, inviting viewers to enter a landscape where memory lingers like a mirage on the horizon – always close, yet just out of reach.
