It’s All We Have: Zara Sully

“Friendship, as far as I’m concerned, is a delicate and rare thing that’s built up over time and is predicated on mutual trust, mutual respect, reciprocal interests and share commitments. It’s a relation that ultimately is lived out, at least as if it were chosen not taken for granted or assumed in advance. It’s something that has to be renegotiated at every step, not demanded unconditionally.”

― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

To say I’m pretty blessed by the friends that surround me would be an understatement. ‘It’s all we have’ exposes the deep connection shared between friends, providing a sneak-peak into the intimate and varied collections housed within the ultimate “safe space”, their (rented) bedrooms.

In a never-ending era of financial instability, friendships can be what sustains our existence. Each portrait depicts not only a friend, but also a fellow-renter. As artists and creatives, it is rare for us to find true stability, and in turn, our objects become ongoing definitions of what makes our rentals a home.

Exhibition opening 5:30pm Thursday 3rd April 2025

image credit: Zara Sully, Sven, 2024