standing still; looking back, looking forward
standing still; looking back, looking forward is a celebration of First Nations identities today, yesterday and tomorrow. Featuring new works by Dean Cross, Brad Darkson, Ashley Perry and Katie West, and collaborative work by Amala Groom & Nicole Monks, the exhibition acts as a testimony to the non-prescription of the Aboriginal experience – presenting a collection of works that together, explore the complexities of navigating culture, expectation and sovereign knowledges.
Through contemporary investigations of memory, lived experience and sovereign knowledge, and the artists own unique experiences, the exhibition highlights the importance of knowledge transfer and the social responsibility that comes with it - charting an urban reality across and between the multiple in culture, place/s and space/s to reveal wide-ranging perspectives and experiences of Aboriginality that intersect both time and tradition, change and adaption.
Continue reading the full curatorial forward via the catalogue below.
Location
Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds
Artists Dean Cross, Brad Darkson, Ashley Perry, Katie West, Amala Groom and Nicole Monk
Curator Jessica Clark
Date 2 June–29 July 2018
Dean Cross, DROPPING THE BULLSHIT (we look like this too), 2018, 3 pure pigment archival ink prints on BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist
Amala Groom & Nicole Monks, momentous, 2018, single channel video with audio. Courtesy of the artists.
Ashley Perry, Boo-rroo-rra Kun-ji:-yil Ba:-bun (Full Moon Corroboree) (detail), 2018, sand-blasted glass, steel. Courtesy of the artist
standing still; looking back, looking forward 2018, installation view, Incinerator Gallery, Moonee Ponds
Brad Darkson, Tremendously very very very beautiful (detail), 2018. Courtesy of the artist
Katie West, Body remembering - grinding stone (ongoing work) (detail), 2018, multidisciplinary installation. Courtesy of the artist