Lundi 30 Novembre 2015 10:53:20 par Antoine Coutin dans Expositions

Brook Andrew's Intervening Time 2015 takes the form of an intervention into the Queensland Art Gallery's Australian art collection. Referencing the chevron pattern that Wiradjuri people paint on their skin, or carve into trees, Andrew recreates the design on the galleries' walls. Existing as a background against which the collection is then rehung, the pattern decisively asserts its presence in the narratives that form Australian history with regard to its landscape, culture and people. It places an Aboriginal body as central and foundational to such narratives and builds a more layered, complex conversation concerning the encounters between indigenous and settler cultures. Andrew's 2012 work TIME, a suite of six large-scale screenprints on canvas that draws on archival images, is installed among the Australian collection as a process of reordering and recontextualisation.

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