MUMA Talks: On Violence and Beauty

About the Program

Join artist Nusra Latif Qureshi for a conversation about violence and beauty in The House of Irredeemable Objects.

Across a thirty-year career, Qureshi has persistently explored ideas of trauma, loss and longing through works of immense beauty. In this conversation with MUMA Director, Dr Rebecca Coates, Qureshi discusses her strategic use of beauty to confer the dark histories that often lurk at its edges.

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The House of Irredeemable Objects is the first major solo exhibition in Melbourne to survey the thirty-year career of Nusra Latif Qureshi. Known for her exquisite painted works extending South Asian painting traditions into contemporary contexts, this exhibition locates these works alongside larger installations and a new commission. Tracing threads of history, migration and the politics of representation, the exhibition reflects on power, memory and desire through Qureshi’s use of layered references, vivid colour and recurring poetic motifs.

_{Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Nusra Latif Qureshi: The House of Irredeemable Objects, curated by Dr Rebecca Coates and Melanie Oliver, at MUMA, 26 July – 21 September 2025.}

_{Image: Nusra Latif Qureshi, On the edges of darkness III 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Sutton Gallery.}