Sam Harrison: Kin'O'Centrism

Recipient of the CIAF x Blaklash Resonance commission, Sam Harrison presents Kin’o’centrism at Cairns Art Gallery’s Court House Building. This exhibition proposes a relational cosmological model grounded in non-linear time and cyclical understandings of existence.  At the core of the exhibition is the Eclipse Series, a suite of lightbox works that articulate cyclical time as a process of continual renewal. The series connects scenes of everyday cultural life to these broader cosmological cycles, grounding expansive philosophical ideas within lived experience.   These structures communicate ethical responsibility, articulate Lore, and reflect a cosmological system shaped by consequence, reciprocity, and conditional truths. Through Kin’o’centrism, absence becomes a promise of presence, and darkness operates as a vital medium for the transmission of knowledge, law, and cultural continuity. The eclipse emerges as a potent metaphor for a ‘new dawn’—not a linear progression, but a cyclical return, signalling the enduring and adaptive resurgence of First Nations knowledge systems.
This exhibition will run from 27th June to 22nd August 2026