REVIEW: Breaking the Silence | Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia
National museums serve as custodians of collective memory. They preserve, interpret, and present stories that shape a nation’s cultural identity. The National Museum of Australia (NMA) fulfills this role powerfully through Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia, on display in the museum’s Focus Gallery. Though modest in scale, this exhibition and accompanying publication reveals a […]
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Damien Shen
“Entombed in Joy” might be a contradiction in terms, but so are, in some sense, the paintings that it names. In Shen’s most buoyant body of work of his career, cartoon characters and emblems familiar to him as a kid growing up in the 1980s are juxtaposed against punch-coloured shields with patterns of Shen’s Ngarrindjeri […]
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Damien Shen
ON THE FABRIC OF THE NGARRINDJERI BODY – VOLUME II
