Alex Martinis Roe’s To Become Two is concerned with the structure of care and kinship, and more specifically how this is enacted within the feminist movement.

Created between 2014–17, six films trace six distinct yet connected feminist groups from the 1970s to today, who have built communities in Europe and Australia: The Milan Women's Bookstore co-operative; Psychanalyse et Politique, Paris; Women's Studies at the University of Utrecht; a network in Sydney including people involved in the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative, Feminist Film Workers, the Working Papers Collective and the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University; and Duoda - Centro de investigación de Mujeres and Ca La Dona in Barcelona.

Martinis Roe has immersed herself in feminist communities and their political practices, learning their histories and processes. Through this, she is alert to the unpaid labour that goes into organising, resisting, and generating the systems of support that enable this kind of work. In particular, Martinis Roe feels that the relationship between generations is in need of urgent attention if we are to generate feminist futures. With this in mind, the final film, Our Future Network takes in the artist’s efforts to establish a new network, in the process developing twenty propositions for feminist collective practice.

To Become Two unfolds across the gallery within structures designed by the artist in collaboration with Berlin-based artist-architect Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, accompanied by materials from the groups in each location.

Catalogue essay by iLiana Fokianaki.