A shrouded figure sits at a wooden table, a glass teapot and porcelain cup before it. “This is tea,” intones a posh male voice, condescendingly kind. “Fill a cup”, it instructs – and the ghostly figure obeys.

In quick succession, the figure mutates – covered in silk florals, creamy satin, then pleated gold lamé – until the artist, the Melbourne-based, South Sudanese Atong Atem, emerges from the fabric.