Don’t Forget to Remember is an experimental drawing performance by Todd Fuller that explores the fragile relationship between presence and disappearance, while considering the backdrop of Australia’s difficult histories of violence against the LGBTIQ community, and in particular gay and trans men at Australian beats. Working directly on the gallery wall, Fuller creates and unravels a simple image through a sequence of physical actions, using his body as both tool and subject.
Don’t Forget to Remember opens space to consider how memory is held, erased, and reshaped, while drawing attention to sites of violence and their lingering presence in everyday environments. It is both an ode and a eulogy to lives lost, a quiet act of witness and forgetting that asks us to look back, learn from the past, and commit to the labour of remembering.