In her 2018 2-channel video work Remain, Iranian born Melbourne artist Hoda Afshar works with several of the refugees who remain on Manus Island, encouraging the men to ‘re-enact their narratives with their own bodies and [gives] them autonomy to narrate their own stories’.
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