Tell: Contemporary Indigenous Photography

'Tell: Contemporary Indigenous Photography' explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander life, history and culture through a focus on photography and its expanded field. Bringing together new commissions and works by 17 Australian Indigenous artists and collaborators, the exhibition presents a diverse collection of photo-based and photo-inspired works that embrace tradition and culture, as well as the potential that new technologies offer contemporary practice.

Set against a backdrop of social and political discourse, photography is located as a powerful outlet for self-expression and self-determination for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. The exhibition’s collective narrative simultaneously focuses outward and inward in a cyclic reflection that illustrates stories of experience, history and culture. 'Tell' is a project of reframing and redefining, provoking a deeper understanding of Indigeneity and the complexities that come with this.


Curated by Jessica Clark

 

When
6 January - 24 February 2018
Address
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd Paddington NSW 2021
Hours
Wed to Fri 10am–5pm; Sat to Sun 12–5pm
Phone
+61 2 8936 0888

Artists
Moorina Bonini
Maree Clarke
Bindi Cole Chocka
Brenda L Croft
Destiny Deacon
Robert Fielding
Deanne Gilson
Jody Haines
Dianne Jones
Ricky Maynard
Hayley Millar-Baker
Kent Morris
Pitcha Makin Fellas
Steven Rhall
Damien Shen
Warwick Thornton
James Tylor & Laura Wills.

Presented by the Ballarat International Foto Biennale in association with Sydney Festival and UNSW Galleries.

Sydney Festival and Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Image
Warwick Thornton, 'Untitled 2' (detail) 2013, pigment print. Image courtesy: the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne