Fluid Sample Brings Global Perspectives on Memory and Identity to Melbourne at the Multicultural Art Festival 2025

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Nov 6
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MELBOURNE, 5 NOV 2025 — The Multicultural Art Festival 2025 is set to welcome a compelling new addition to its program — Fluid Sample, an international art exhibition that exploring how memory and identity shift across time, culture, and geography. The exhibition will open to the public from 15 to 21 November 2025 as part of this year’s Festival program, presented at Creative Asia Art Center.

First launched in Naples, Italy, Fluid Sample began as an independent initiative to connect emerging Asian artists with global audiences. Its Melbourne edition marks the project’s second iteration, curated by Nolo Lab X Jingyi Tong, and brings together more than twenty young artists from Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. Through painting, installation, photography, and video works, the exhibition invites visitors to experience the fluid nature of identity and the role of memory in shaping who we are.

A CORE FEATURE OF “LAYERED THINKING”

This year’s Multicultural Art Festival is guided by the theme “Layered Thinking — Exploring Identity, Complexity, and the Coexistence of Multiple Perspectives.” Fluid Sample stands as one of the Festival’s feature exhibitions, translating this curatorial vision into an experience that is both personal and collective.

Taking childhood and memory as its thematic entry point, Fluid Sample explores how fleeting moments in life shape our experiences within an ever-shifting reality. By bringing together artists from different regions and disciplines, Fluid Sample captures the essence of “Layered Thinking” — revealing how diversity and dialogue generate new ways of seeing and understanding the world.

ABOUT THE CURATORS: NOLO LAB X JINGYI TONG

The exhibition is jointly curated by Nolo Lab X Jingyi Tong, bringing together distinct yet complementary curatorial practices.

Nolo Lab, founded in Naples by Ayina, Wu Gio, and Kaixin of the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, is an experimental curatorial collective that views exhibitions as open dialogues rather than static displays. After its debut project in Italy, Nolo Lab expanded to include Eason Lin, an Australia-based independent curator and designer, and Luigi Wang, a Beijing-based strategist, further broadening its international reach.

Jingyi Tong, based in London, is a curator and spatial artist whose work explores identity, embodiment, and spatial experience. With a background in architectural design, she transforms overlooked everyday encounters into immersive, site-responsive art environments.

A CROSS-CULTURAL HIGHLIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM

The Multicultural Art Festival 2025, organised by the Australia Contemporary Artist Association and Creative Asia Foundation, the Festival presents a dynamic program of exhibitions, art fair and artist talk celebrating cultural diversity and creative collaboration.

As one of this year’s international highlights, Fluid Sample adds a new dimension to the Festival’s lineup, inviting Melbourne audiences to experience a dialogue between artists from Europe, Asia, and the Pacific. The exhibition reinforces the Festival’s mission to connect global perspectives through art and to celebrate creativity as a shared language across borders.