Somewhat Eternal Scent Distillation

Join artist Justine Youssef in a distillation practice—extracting fragrant hydrosols from plants like rose, cedar and wild herbs using matrilineal techniques from her village in Lebanon. This session extends her multi-sensory installation artwork "Somewhat Eternal," where these species carry layered histories as both tools of settler agriculture and lifelines for displaced communities. It extends her investigation of how rituals adapt across geographies, inviting reflection on inherited relationships to land and ecology, offering space to question, reclaim and reimagine our entangled place in the world.All materials provided. Limited spaces available. Performance runs from 40 minutes up to an hour.

About Justine Youssef

Justine Youssef is a film, scent and installation artist whose practice is site-specific, informed by ethnobotany, and guided by worldbuilding processes. Her exhibition Somewhat Eternal toured at Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (2024), the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2024), and UTS Gallery, Sydney (2023), following earlier work at the Hawai’i Triennial, O’ahu (2022). Justine lives and works on Dharug Country in Sydney, Australia, where First Nations sovereignty was never ceded.