Within Horizon's Urban Gallery, Stasis  combines generative art and data visualisation as a medium for expressing complex human stories, fostering connection, and building understanding and compassion across communities.

Starting from a series of data portraits presenting the stories of refugee and asylum-seeking youths in Australia, Stasis presents these personal stories of displacement and prolonged detention in the form of disintegrated interviews. Lambert manipulates the original data to a place of distillation and fragmentation – a level of abstraction - that allows the audience to hear, see, and then move beyond the individual stories to a place of shared humanity.

By humanising data and amplifying the voices of marginalised communities, Stasis seeks to foster empathy among strangers and reveal the transformative power of art to build bridges of understanding and social change.

About the Urban Gallery

This work is part of the Festival Precinct, where we invite you to wander and wonder through our Urban Gallery every day of Horizon 2025.

Situated in Ocean St, Maroochydore (Kabi Kabi Country), you’ll find a diverse collection of works nestled into streets, laneways and Big Top Shopping Centre — blurring the lines between physical, artistic and digital realms.

Suitable for all ages, this free-to-enjoy 10-day art-trail will feature inspiring work from visionary Queensland and Australian contemporary artists, including First Nations artists.

Experimenta: Curatorial statement

The festival's provocation of radical hope is the inspiration for Experimenta's public art presentation. Radical hope is a transformative framework that challenges us to move beyond passive optimism, instead embracing collective action, shared goals and resilience.

Radical hope is rooted in the belief that social change emerges from community-driven efforts. It calls on diverse groups to coalesce, transcend societal limitations, and actively imagine and walk towards a just and equitable future.

The works featured in this presentation by Experimenta, as part of Horizon 2025, reflect this ethos. These works go beyond a single act of art making; they are part of long-term projects embodying the artists' acts of radical hope.

Creative Team

• Artist – Kenneth Lambert
• Experimenta Curator – Lubi Thomas
• Experimenta Creative Producer – Anna Nalpantidis

Acknowledgements

Stasis is curated by Experimenta and presented by Horizon 2025 as part of the Festival Precinct Urban Gallery supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland Big Top Shopping Centre.

This project was created in collaboration with STARTTS and supported by Amnesty International and Australia for UNHCR. Stasis was made possible through the support of Create NSW and Creative Australia.