Presented by ACMI, Blindside Gallery, Solid Lines and Agency Projects
ART+FILM: Allison Chhorn & Savi Ross
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Thu 6 Nov 2025
Join us for a viewing of work by Allison Chhorn and Savi Ross, commissioned for Blindside Gallery's Screen Series.
At the invitation of Blindside Gallery, ACMI and Solid Lines with Agency Projects, are proud to have commissioned filmmaker and photographer Allison Chhorn, and artist and illustrator Savi Ross respectively to make new works for Blindside's annual online Screen Series. Blindside is an artist-run initiative at the forefront of contemporary art. Based in Naarm/Melbourne's iconic Nicholas Building, Blindside is a leading platform for new and critical dialogues, multidisciplinary practice and bold ideas.
Following the screening of the commissions, Allison and Blindside's Community Coordinator Josephine Mead will have a conversation, focusing on the need to build shelters/structures and houses, and wider themes of heritage, intergenerational knowledge and home.
Allison Chhorn
Allison Chhorn is a Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist living on Kaurna Land (South Australia). Her work explores the effects of migrant displacement and post-memory through impressionistic forms, often with family members as subjects. Since graduating with Honours in painting at UniSA in 2014, she has made numerous films including “Blind Body”, “Missing” and “The Plastic House”. The latter was filmed on her family’s farm and has screened at Melbourne International Film Festival, New York Film Festival and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Her films were also screened as part of a retrospective at the 11th Cambodian International Film Festival. Crossing into the gallery, she received the 2022 Porter St Commission from Adelaide Contemporary Experimental Gallery to make her first solo exhibition and multi-channel installation “Skin Shade Night Day” which was exhibited as part of The National: Australian Art Now (MCA, 2023). In 2024 she received the Arts SA Fellowship to undertake a residency in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Most recently, she exhibited her 2nd solo show at Outer Space, Magandjin (Brisbane).
Savi Ross
Savi Ross is an African American, Torres Strait Islander artist, excited by digital illustration, creative storytelling, and Black joy. Savi was born and raised in Gimuy (Cairns) and now lives and works on Wurundjeri Country in Narrm (Melbourne). Savi's work is often inspired by these places; the hugging mountains of Cairns and slow life as a young person in the 2000s; and the vibrancy of Naarm—two places that are in many ways different and sometimes similar. Often Savi's illustrations are expressed through printed materials, to think about what community means; our public vs private lives; and the complexities of family, bodies, and intimacy.
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