Kareen Adam

Megan Evans 2020

Kareen is a Maldivian artist based in Narrm, Australia. Her multi-disciplinary practice interrogates the personal, social and political complexities of living between two homes with vastly different cultures and histories. Her current work critiques colonial mechanisms embedded in tourism representations of island destinations, and subverts marketing mediums and tourism paraphernalia to disrupt the tourist gaze. Kareen has exhibited works in Maldives, Australia and parts of the Asia Pacific. In May 2021 her curatorial debut “Here, There, Nowhere”, with all Maldivian artists, was exhibited at Blak Dot Gallery (Melbourne). Kareen is a PhD Candidate (Fine Art) at Womenjika Djeembana Lab, MADA, Monash University.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.