MARS Gallery will be exhibiting a selection of photographic and video works by Atong Atem. Atem is an Ethiopian born, South Sudanese artist, writer and curator based in Narrm/ Melbourne. Working primarily between photography and video, Atem explores migrant narratives and postcolonial practices in the African diaspora, the relationship between public and private spaces and the exploration of home and identity through portraiture. MARS Gallery is the first and only Australian gallery to exhibit at photo basel. The gallery’s involvement also marks the event of the artist’s first showing at an international art fair. To celebrate this achievement, and to give a worthy introduction into Atem’s work, MARS will be presenting a range of pieces from across key bodies of work from Atem’s oeuvre, Surat (2022), To Be Real (2020), and new self-portraits.