Spiral Passages presents new works by Lupo Borgonovo, Constantina Iacovou, and Nina Zeljković, culminating in a broad range of mediums including painting, sculpture, printmaking, text, and drawing. The assembly of their practices celebrates the first presentation of these works in Australia and cultivates reciprocity across their respective practices in both a poetic and pragmatic register.

The exhibition visualises echoes of the past which continue to punctuate our present moment. Infused with temporal slippages evoked by nature, mythology, intuition, folklore, and the relic, Spiral Passages draws together works weighted with spirit – charged by relational pulses that traverse time and place.

United through shared conceptual methods of re-tracing, each artist acts as a conduit for the manifestation of scenes, memories, and marks of times past – collective, personal, and spiritual. The process of ‘revisiting’ is enacted using tools of translation, mimicry, and pilgrimage, filtering histories into tangible forms that offer blurred visions of distant realities, and the residual essence of those who came before us. Our linear visualisation of history is malleable with each artists offering – enveloping a single moment that can exist alongside moments past.

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Lupo Borgonovo (b. 1985) is an Italian visual artist based in Milan, Italy. Combining and associating forms from the natural world, historical artefacts, and quotidian experiences, Lupo Borgonovo’s work explores the pleasures of experimentation with material and formal possibilities through his dedicated practice of sculpture and drawing. Borgonovo’s works emerge from a metaphoric approach, merging traditional material languages with an interest in intuitive processes that transform matter. These processes are informed by field research, walking, and historic archival materials, suspending his work between the organic world and the intangible sphere; negative space, traces, light, shadows, and emptiness are given equal importance to the accessible physicality of the objects he creates.

Lupo Borgonovo’s works are held in public collections including Casa Masaccio centro per l’arte contemporanea in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy; Collezione Maramotti in Reggio Emilia, Italy; Museo Civico di Castelbuono in Castelbuono, Italy; Museo del Novecento in Milan, Italy; and Triennale Milano in Milan, Italy. Borgonovo’s recent solo and group exhibitions include 2 Mantelli 3 Incensieri curated by Filippo Percassi at The Information Lab in Milan, Italy (2025); 18A Quadriennale d’arte contemporanea curated by Francesco Bonami at the Palazzo delle esposizione in Rome, Italy (2025); and Inequalities curated by Marco Sammicheli and Nic Palmarini at the Triennale in Milan, Italy (2025).

Constantina Iacovou (b. 1994) is a Greek-Australian artist based between Naarm, Australia, and Athens, Greece. Her multidisciplinary practice is deeply rooted in a long-term drawing collaboration with her maternal Grandmother, spanning from 2013 until her passing on February 23, 2019. Constantina’s ongoing engagement with the works created through this intergenerational collaboration continue to shape her conceptual and material explorations, which poetically unravel personal and cultural narratives of the migratory experience.

Constantina Iacovou holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University (2015) and a Masters of Cultural Materials Conservation from the University of Melbourne (2019). Constantina has since worked in museum collections between Greece and Australia including the Archeological Museum of Ancient Corinth in Ancient Corinth, Greece, and the Museum of Australian Photography in Melbourne, Australia. Constantina’s daily exposure to archival materials as a conservator of both the ancient and neoteric, further inform her personal artistic practice, built through the slippages of translation one encounters during the act of preserving tangible memory.

Nina Zeljković (b. 1985) is a Serbian visual artist and conceptual painter who lives and works between her studios in Belgrade, Serbia, and Berlin, Germany. Informed by the attitudes of the Eastern Byzantine canon towards image making and architecture, Zeljković explores painting that seeks to influence the body’s movements through space and activate an embodied knowledge within the viewer. Through the lens of early Eastern Christian iconography and its key properties of reversed perspective and limits in figurative representation through the iconoclastic debate, her paintings endeavour to create decentralised spaces, challenging the centralised point of the Western perspective paradigm.

Nina Zeljković graduated in painting in the class of Jutta Koether at HFBK Hamburg in Germany. Zeljković’s recent solo and group exhibitions include Calendar at Can in Vienna, Austria (2025), Curated by curated by Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau at City Galerie Wien and Layr, Vienna (2025); Future of Melancholia curated by Sandro Droschl at the Halle für Kunst Steiermark in Graz, Austria (2025); Questions of belonging curated by Merle Radtke, Staklopan, Belgrade Art Week, Belgrade, Serbia (2024); Pigment Solitaire, curated by Dr. Ulrike Gerhardt, Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden, Germany (2023); Substrates curated by Claudia Paetzold at the Centre Culturel de Serbie in Paris, France (2023); and Mrežni kaput oka, curated by Antonio Grulli, Non Canonico, Belgrade, Serbia (2022).