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- Title
every day iachievessomething becauseiwas borninthisskin everyday iconcedesomething becauseiwas borninthisskin.
- Authors
Young, Michael
- Abstract
The article discusses the work of Indigenous Australian artist Vernon Ah Kee and his participation in the 2009 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy. It notes his use of popular cultural expressions to satirize the understanding of Aboriginals by white Australians. His work will appear in a group show along with sculptor Ken Yonetani and installation artists Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro. Ah Kee began his career with drawing but eventually moved to text polemics in black on large white panels. One series of drawings plays on the 1930s photographs of Aboriginals taken by Norman Tindale, one of whom happened to be Ah Kee's great grandfather. In the photographs, scientific classification overrode humanity. In his drawings he gives the individuals names, not numbers, and makes each unique.
- Subjects
VENICE (Italy); ITALY; AH Kee, Vernon; RACE in art; BIENNALE di Venezia; YONETANI, Ken; HEALY, Claire; CORDEIRO, Sean; TINDALE, Norman; EXHIBITIONS
- Publication
ArtAsiaPacific, 2009, Issue 63, p114
- ISSN
1039-3625
- Publication type
Article