
SUBURBAN SUPERHEROES
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Suburban Superheroes celebrates the power and strength of extraordinariness amongst an ordinary world. It is a photographic series of portraits, featuring artists with disability from Sprung Dance Theatre. The artists are captured in their local community of suburban (ordinary) Ballina, in self-made original superhero (extraordinary) costumes. It is the creative outcome of a disability-led process, developed in collaboration with Sprung Artistic Director, Daniele Constance (identifies), neurodivergent artist, Sarah Lewis (Lewis), and photographer, Jorge Serra.
This body of work reflects the way the artists would like to be seen, depicting familiar and ordinary worlds animated by the characters they’ve created. It is a playful invitation for reflection on how people with disability often have to navigate, mask, hide in ordinary, every day spaces.
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“As disabled people we often hide the extraordinary aspects of ourselves so we can exist within the ordinary world. Some of us are so extraordinary we can’t hide, we can’t fit. Our extraordinariness makes us highly visible, often compounding the disconnection and isolation experienced amongst worlds that are not made for us. There will be a world one day, where being extraordinary like us becomes ordinary. This exhibition dreams of that future.”
— Artist, Sarah Lewis (Lewis)