Half Light- Portraits from Black Australia
The Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Half Light- Portraits from Black Australia, on view through until the 22nd February 2009. Photography by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists has emerged over the past two decades as a definitive expression of contemporary Indigenous life in Australia. Half Light is the first major survey of the work of Indigenous artists engaging with the photographic medium and the portrait.
The exhibition brings together over 140 works by 15 of Australia’s most renowned Indigenous artists. With a critical eye on the history of photographic representations of Indigenous people, these artists take charge of the lens. In the exhibition we see the ‘face’ of Indigenous Australia, at home on the mission pouring tea, dancing up in country or re-enacting and reclaiming the past.
Showcasing a range of techniques from classical black and white portraiture to large scale duratrans; from digital imagery to experimental films, the exhibition offers an unprecedented insight that transcends national borders and the harsh reality of the everyday.
Half Light embraces the fundamental right of people to self-representation, expressed in the works of Indigenous photographers who have upheld – and continue to uphold – this simple truth. The exhibition is curated by Hetti Perkins and Jonathan Jones, Curators of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Art Gallery of NSW
21 November 2008 – 22 February 2009
Rudy Komon gallery, Upper Level
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