SPIRAL PASSAGES

12.09.2025 - 18.10.2025 

Haydens (exhibition website)
Brunswick East AU

Lupo Borgonovo, Nina Zeljković, and Constantina Iacovou

Curated by Jacqueline Stojanović

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

Spiral Passages presents new artworks by international artists Nina Zeljković (RS), Constantina Iacovou (EL) and Lupo Borgonovo (IT), culminating in a broad range of mediums including painting, sculpture, moving image, photography, 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.

United through their 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, fining histories into tangible forms to 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 – the lines curve into transparent spirals, enveloping a single moment that can exist alongside moments past.

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Installation view, Spiral Passages, Nina Zeljković, Lupo Borgonovo, and Constantina Iacovou, 2025, Haydens.



Installation view, Spiral Passages, Nina Zeljković, Lupo Borgonovo, and Constantina Iacovou, 2025, Haydens.




Installation view, Spiral Passages, Constantina Iacovou and Konstantina Apostolopoulou, 2025, Haydens.



Konstantina Apostolopoulou and Constantina Iacovou, collaborative drawings 2014-15; My love breeds under calluses 2025.





Installation view, Spiral Passages, Lupo Borgonovo and Constantina Iacovou, 2025, Haydens.



Constantina Iacovou, ΦΡΟΥ ΦΡΟΥ [FROU FROU] 1 2025; ΦΡΟΥ ΦΡΟΥ [FROU FROU] 2 2025; Squidgammon 2025.




Installation view, Spiral Passages, Constantina Iacovou, ceramic vessels.



Constantina Iacovou, Αγκυρα, Αθήνα, Λευκωσία - Εχθρός μας είναι ο πόλεμος και η στρατοκρατία
[Ankara, Athens, Lefkosia - Our (common) enemy is war and militarisation] 2025; ΔΕΧΤΗΚΑ, ΔΈΧΤΗΚΕΣ. ΤΙ ΤΟ ΗΘΕΛΕΣ; 
[I agreed, you agreed. What did you want it for?] 2025; You who loves the sea, bathe poorly 2025; We have already eaten the camel and now there is the queue 2025; Bread, Education, Freedom 2025; We have eaten the donkey and all that is left is its tail. 2025; For (ever) Zackie 2025.





Installation view, Spiral Passages, Lupo Borgonovo and Nina Zeljković, 2025, Haydens.




Lupo Borgonovo, OV, OVI, and OIV 2021, felt tip pen on paper, 100 x 70 cm each.




Installation view, Spiral Passages, Nina Zeljković, 2025, Haydens.



Nina Zeljković, Maquette (II) 2025, egg tempura on wood.




Installation view, Spiral Passages, Nina Zeljković, 2025, Haydens.



Nina Zeljković, Maquette (I) 2025, egg tempura on wood.




Nina Zeljković, Untitled 2025, canvas, rabbit skin glue substrates, pigment.



Nina Zeljković, Maquette (IV), Maquette (III) and Maquette (V) 2025, egg tempura on wood.