Desire Is a Machine
Curated by Stephanie Berlangieri
12 July–20 September 202512 Jul–20 Sep 2025
The Institute of Modern Art presents Desire Is a Machine curated by Adjunct Curator Stephanie Berlangieri.
The exhibition explores desire as a creative, non-hierarchical, and productive force. Drawing on schizoanalysis—a framework developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari after May 1968—the exhibition features artists who expand on this idea by challenging dominant models of mental health and social life, understanding identity as fluid and changeable, and proposing new ways of being through ecological entanglement.
Artists: Graeme Doyle, Stuart Ringholt and Giselle Stanborough (Australia); Pedro França and Rodrigo Sano with Ueinzz Theatre Company (Brazil); Aurélien Froment (Scotland/France); Fritz Kahn (Germany); and Angela Melitopoulos (Greece/Germany) and Maurizio Lazzarato (France/Italy).
Curated By
- Stephanie Berlangieri
Stephanie Berlangieri is a curator, researcher, and writer. She is an Adjunct Curator at the IMA and Curator Research at Monash University Museum of Art, Naarm/Melbourne. Previously, she has held curatorial positions at Carriageworks, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and Sydney Biennale in Gadigal/Sydney. She has written for Art Monthly Australasia, Art Asia Pacific, Artist Profile, and Art and Australia. She lives in Naarm/Melbourne.
