IDAIA post on this exhibition here
Here is a quote of Henry Skerritt:
“these works have to be stunningly beautiful because of what
they’re trying to do … to enact all of the power of the landscape, and
it’s a power that they see in the shifting of the light, in the
blossoming of the desert blooms, in the movement of the sand dunes; all
of these things are enactments of this spiritual power of the landscape.
It has to be beautiful because what it’s trying to do is occupy you….
These are not sentinels standing guard to protect their culture against
the onslaught of colonialism. These are not defensive paintings, these
are actually occupying forces and the point of them is to travel out
into the world … to impress upon you with this purely affective visual
power, to realize how powerful this landscape is.”[v]
http://www.idaia.com.au/en/article-make-it-new-make-it-now-just-what-is-it-that-makes-australian-aboriginal-art-so-appealing-so-contemporary/
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