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Buhlebezwe SIWANI, Ziyayokozela 2017, single channel video 10:45 mins. Collection of the artist. Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD, Cape Town, South Africa
Zanele MUHOLI, Bhekezakhe, Parktown 2016, Silver gelatin print, 50 x 35.9cm. Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yancey Richardson, New York.
Athi-Patra RUGA, The future white woman of Azania (detail) 2012, inkjet print, 80x100cm. Courtesy of the Artist. Photographer: Ruth Simbao, South Africa
Fiona FOLEY, Smouldering pride from the Horror has a face series 2017, digital print, 60 x 45cm. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane.
This is the first major exhibition in a new Gallery program that examines Australian Indigenous race and representation within the context of global black art and culture.
The exhibition aims to challenge the uncomfortable truths that surround the colonisation of Australia and South Africa and how these truths have impacted on and shaped the construction of contemporary black/blak personhood. Australia and South Africa have a shared but different experience of British colonisation, and in this exhibition it is the way that the artists from both countries have chosen to interrogate and interpret these experiences that is most revealing and challenging.
The decision to focus on Indigenous Australian artists living in the north of the country who have cultural connections to Queensland, relates to the Gallery’s research interests and the specific conditions of colonisation that prevailed in Queensland. However, the reality of colonisation and the resulting experience of ‘unbelonging’ in one’s own country has resonance for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists in Australia.
Mary SIBANDE, Caught in the Rapture 2009
Tony ALBERT, Eyes in the Sky 2018. Photograph: Simon Hewson.
Mohau MODISAKENG, still photographs from the Ditaloa series 2014. Courtesy of the artist and WHATIFTHEWORLD.
Dale HARDING, Black days in the Dawson River Country – Remembrance Gowns 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery. Photograph: David Marks.
Kudzanai CHIURAI, Genesis [Je n’isi isi] IV 2016. Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery, South Africa.
Athi-Patra RUGA, The future white woman of Azania (detail) 2012. Courtesy of the Artist. Photographer: Ruth Simbao, South Africa
Hannah BRONTË, Still I Rise 2015
Fiona FOLEY, Opiate of Opulence 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane.
Zanele MUHOLI, MaID in Harlem, African Market, 116 St 2015. Courtesy of the artist and STEVENSON, Cape Town/Johannesburg, South Africa.
Fiona FOLEY, Smouldering pride from the Horror has a face series 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane.
Michael COOK, INVASION (Laser girls) 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Baker Art Dealer, Brisbane
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE | $18.95
All works from the exhibition are reproduced in the catalogue that is available to purchase through the Gallery Shop.
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