Through new daguerreotype photographs and an immersive sound installation, James Tylor captures the South Australian coastline.
By investigating his own Aboriginal, European and Maori heritage, these photographs highlight Australia’s colonial past, in particular the European colonisation of Tylor’s ancestral lands – the Kaurna nation in Adelaide. By scratching the surface of the photographs Tylor permanently marks the landscape, emphasising colonisation’s deep impact on the traditional owners of the land and its continual affect on present day issues surrounding racial identity and cultural representation in Australia.
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA)
Until 28 August, 2016
South Australia
Hidden in the shadows (detail), 2016, scratched daguerreotype, 10.16 x 12.7cm
Courtesy the artist, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne and GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
