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Marking the beginning of the 2026 Ocean Space exhibition season, TBA21–Academy presents Tide of Returns, an exhibition running from March 28 until October 11 based on the artistic-research of the Repatriates Collective, which is formed by artists from Australia’s Pacific North, South and West Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
The exhibition emerges from the many small rituals that comprise artists’ ecological wisdom and care. By engaging with Indigenous cosmovisions and the shaping power of water, the artworks on view explore the potential for overcoming forms of cultural, social, and environmental violence.
The stories told here are shaped by the language of the land, the ocean, and the bodies that tell them. As experiments with possible relations between humans and the ocean, the works in the exhibition tell communities’ stories of families, practices, ancestors. By using materials washed ashore, from nets to shells, these artists show new ways for living and working in the aftermath…
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Marking the beginning of the 2026 Ocean Space exhibition season, TBA21–Academy presents Tide of Returns, an exhibition running from March 28 until October 11 based on the artistic-research of the Repatriates Collective, which is formed by artists from Australia’s Pacific North, South and West Africa, Europe, and Latin America.
The exhibition emerges from the many small rituals that comprise artists’ ecological wisdom and care. By engaging with Indigenous cosmovisions and the shaping power of water, the artworks on view explore the potential for overcoming forms of cultural, social, and environmental violence.
The stories told here are shaped by the language of the land, the ocean, and the bodies that tell them. As experiments with possible relations between humans and the ocean, the works in the exhibition tell communities’ stories of families, practices, ancestors. By using materials washed ashore, from nets to shells, these artists show new ways for living and working in the aftermath…






















