On the second night of Love Letters To My City, the gallery transforms into a living stage where art and fashion converge. For this exclusive runway, models move between drawings, sculptures, and installations, weaving fashion into the exhibition space and reimagining it as a site of performance and motion.
Together, Lae Um and Allié invite you into an embodied collaboration where garment and gesture meet installation and presence. The runway becomes a shared language of movement and memory, asking: how do we inhabit the spaces we create for one another, and what remains after we leave them behind?
Allié (She/Her) is an artist whose work lives between the digital and the tactile, the personal and the universal. Based in Naarm (Melbourne) and rooted in her Vietnamese heritage, she creates pieces that hold tension and beauty, challenging how we see identity and authenticity. Her practice is deeply shaped by her journey as a trans woman of colour, offering reflections on culture, gender, and belonging. An archive of lived experience. In her upcoming fashion presentation, Allié expands her practice into performance art, exploring fashion as a medium of storytelling. This presentation also marks the soft debut of allién, her evolving atelier, a space where clothing becomes narrative and living artwork.
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Laetitia Um is a Chinese-Timorese/Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Her work moves through the emotional terrains of heartbreak, longing, and transformation, impressions that give rise to a tension between the ephemeral and the tactile.
Her debut solo exhibition, Love Letters To My City (2025, Schoolhouse Studios), marks a formative moment in her evolving practice.
Rooted in dreamy clarity and hand-drawn simplicity, her work creates a contemplative space. The exhibition unfolds across four distinct corners, each questioning the ties between people and place.
Laetitia reflects on how those with whom she has shared pivotal moments continue to shape her sense of the spaces they once inhabited together. In doing so, the work invites a shared visual language for navigating personal and collective emotions within an increasingly polarised world.