‘The Past is the Present is the Future’, curated by Talia Smith, features works by photographic and moving image artists inspired by Aotearoa writer Patricia Grace’s (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa and Te Āti Awa) novel Potiki, who suggests that time is the embodiment of an ancestral past and a speculative future. Drawing on their own cultural heritage the artists reflect on experiences of alienation in new homelands, longing for motherland, ancestral homelands through the eyes of a mother, and the exoticised muse within Bali’s art canon.
Dacchi Dang, Self-Portrait, 2009. Courtesy the artist and Granville Centre Art Gallery, Sydney
Granville Centre Art Gallery
19 February to 9 May, 2021
Sydney
