Keg de Souza

About the work

The TAKEAWAY exhibition takes place at Canberra Contemporary from 12 September-24 October 2026 and features works by Marley Dawson, Keg de Souza, Gianna Christella Hayes, Gillian Kayrooz, Zora Pang, Janhavi Salvi, and James Tylor. Presented as part of Canberra Art Biennial 2026, the show is accompanied by a public program at multiple venues across Canberra themed around gastropoetics, food security, and diaspora eating imaginaries. Included in the show is a pop-up reading area by Magenta House featuring publications and ephemera that serve as ‘side-dishes’ to the themes explored by the participants of this project. Ultimately, TAKEAWAY takes a regenerative approach into why and how we eat, while digesting fraught histories and ecologies of land, water and labour.

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About the artist

Keg de Souza is an artist and researcher of Goan ancestry living on unceded Gadigal land. Architecturally trained, Keg creates social and spatial environments, making reference to lived experiences of squatting and organising with projects using plant and food politics, temporary architecture, publishing and radical pedagogy. Keg draws from experiences of colonialism informing projects that centre voices that are often marginalised – sharing lesser-known stories of plants, people and Place. Keg has a PhD through Wominjeka Djeembana, Monash University. In 2024 Keg was a Dahl Fellow, Eucalypt Australia and Gilbert Fellow, Sydney University and has made projects for: Sunaparanta Goa Centre for the Arts, India; Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; ACCA, Melbourne; South London Gallery; Artspace; AGNSW; 20th Biennale of Sydney; Setouchi Triennale; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; 15th Jakarta Biennale (with ruangrupa) and 5th Auckland Triennial.