EVOLVING MOTION
Astrophe invites you into the world of Sydney-based creatives Tahmyna Rad (artist) and Billy Zammit (photographer), presenting a body of work born from movement, collaboration, and the pulse of underground culture.
Drawn together through a shared language of music, DIY ethos, and independent creative scenes, the pair have developed a practice rooted in process over outcome — an ongoing dialogue shaped by instinct, repetition, and a mutual attraction to the raw and the real. What emerges is not performance, but experience: visceral, fleeting, and deeply physical.
At the centre of the work is transformation. Across the shoot, Tahmyna pushes her body through high-intensity intervals, each frame captured in the narrow window between exertion and recovery — where control dissolves and something more honest takes over. Beauty here is not constructed, but earned. Worn. Felt.
This is an invitation to witness the body at its threshold — in motion, in stillness, and in the quiet aftermath of both.
28.03.26 — 683–689 George Street, Sydney.
TAHMYNA RAD:
what is your favourite conspiracy theory?
AI has arrived in prime conditions to take over; us humans are in our evolutionary flop era.
what is your go-to karaoke song?
He Can Only Hold Her - Amy Winehouse (or anything Amy)
who are you booking for a dream festival / art show line-up?
Ana Roxanne and Laurel Halo (music); 404.ZERO on the Light installation/sound performance; and if I can bring him back to life, Lee McQueen for an Alexander McQueen runway show.
what is your favourite compliment you've ever received?
The way you live reminds me that I can do it my way too
what is the last thing you Googled?
“Andrew Boy Charlton Pool hours”
what’s your favourite “third space”?
The Sydney Metro
what is your prized possession?
When I finished high school I spent a couple of months in Iran - my grandmother gave me a gold necklace with Faravahar, an ancient Persian/Zoroastrian symbol representing one's personal spirit, engraved into it.
what’s the worst piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
“If you study a really hard degree your life will be easy”
what’s your go to comfort meal?
Koobideh with rice + grilled tomatoes (Persian dish that you need to try)
what are 7 things you find heavenly?
1. Riding my bike with no hands, sun beaming, something ethereal playing in my ear (one earphone only)
2. Diving into the ocean from a height
3. Witnessing creative expression in the wild (I love to see a weirdo thrive!)
4. CREATING
5. Eating something delicious with people I love
6. DANCING
7. A hug from Mum
BILLY ZAMMIT
what is your favourite conspiracy theory?
The cameraman never dies
what is your go-to karaoke song?
Angels, Robbie Williams
who are you booking for a dream festival / art show line-up?
Art show I’d want a mix of
Marcel Duchamp and Shepard Fairy going bar for bar on graffiti origins and the development in art scene cultures surrounding commercialism and saturation, where ‘radical anti authoritarianism’ sits and wether something can become art through interaction vs an artwork curated from inception with a narrative pointing to these through notes.. and it has to Yves Klein blue featured throughout.
Also Prodigy and Gorillaz are soundtracking this night..
what is your favourite compliment you've ever received?
You never stop do you? (Recognise it!)
what is the last thing you Googled?
“Thug life gold chain costume jewellery”
what’s your favourite “third space”?
My 95’ C124 (car)
what is your prized possession?
Binders of film negatives from 10+ years of travel that I’ve never revisited or scanned.. future project
what’s the worst piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
“Just do it anyways”
what’s your go to comfort meal?
Double smash patty cheeseburger with a fridge ciggie (Coke Zero)
what are 7 things you find heavenly?
1. Not having my carry on bags weighed
2. Off grid
3. Exposing a print in a darkroom
4. Late summer night drive over the Sydney harbour bridge
5. First swim of summer
6. Passion/commitment/creativity
7. Watching the homies on the up