Pilar Mata Dupont’s practice plays out the complex, constantly unfolding processes of remembering, forgetting, and rewriting history. Influenced by her background and upbringing in the settler-colonial states of Brunei, Argentina, and Australia, Dupont works with dark, absurdist humour to reflect on her family’s complicated past, memory fatigue, colonial anxiety, and how trauma manifests over large geographical and temporal distances.
Here, the artist presents a vivid exploration of intergenerational storytelling and the fragmentation of memory across video, photography and performance, including her new work Las Hormigas, 2022.

Pilar Mata Dupont, La Lilana, 2021, photo print, acrylic face mounted on aluminium, 120 × 90cm. Photographer production by Tony Nathan at Studio OPPA. Courtesy the artist and MOORE CONTEMPORARY, Perth and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Western Australia
Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts
28 October 2022 to 8 January 2023
Western Australia