Thursday, July 16, 2015

How do artists confront troubling national histories?



Reparative Aesthetics: Rosangela Renno and Fiona Pardington is showing at the University of Sydney Art Gallery to 25 September. Curated by Sue Best, the show addresses the question: how do artists confront troubling national histories? Renno and Pardington are positioned as artists who have have pioneered a reparative approach to the representation of the colonized and disenfranchised.
Image: Fiona Pardington, Portrait of a life cast of Koe (front), Timor, 2011; Rosangela Renno Three Holes 1998, from the Vulgo series (Alias) 1998-99