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Lilah Benetti (they them) is a trans disciplinary artist working across contemporary art and cinema, with moving image as their primary material.

Engaging cinema as a medium shaped by ritual, attention, and transmission, their practice is grounded in research as relation and moves between cinematic film and spatial installation, treating narrative filmmaking and experimental moving image as parallel sites within the same inquiry.

Working with sound, performance, and research based collaboration, Lilah approaches still and moving image as fluid and porous, attentive to how images hold duration, atmosphere, and affect, and to how meaning is carried through presence and absence rather than resolution.

Their work has been presented at Tate Britain, London, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, the Dakar Biennale OFF, Dakar, IFC Center New York, and Minor Attractions, London, and featured in VOGUE Italia, The Face, Art Monthly Australasia, and The Guardian.

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I respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples, the Traditional Custodians of Naarm, where I live and work. This was and always will be Aboriginal land. I also extend my respect to Indigenous peoples across the Kulin Nation and to the many nations, communities and cultures of the continents now known as Australia and Africa. I acknowledge that the very naming and bordering of these lands reflect colonial systems of control, extraction and imperialism, imposed on diverse nations and territories whose sovereignty endures.

I hold deep gratitude for the privilege of living, working and creating on these lands, and recognise that my practice is entangled in these ongoing histories. I remain committed to approaching this work with care, humility and a willingness to listen and learn.