Natasha Tontey’s speculative fictional stories, Of Other Tomorrows Never Known, are about complex caring works entwined with an urgent need to talk with ancestors. They focus on spirits and how to renew relationships with them – spiritually, materially and technologically.

The artwork explores how caring is always entangled with the need to regain long-overdue respect for Indigenous principles, values and beliefs. However, built-in features of our lives are structured around histories of inclusion, exclusion and normality. Acknowledging the existence of multiple worlds accepts the risk of appearing illogical or incomprehensible.

Complementing the narratives in our main gallery exhibition, Cosmic Beings, Tontey encourages us to embrace this illogical aspect of caring, which expresses a willingness to take further steps to let go of our dependence on established institutions to tell us what is primitive, modern, irrational and rational.