Responsibility to the collective, whether it’s duty to family, community, ancestors, gods or ecologies, embeds us meaningfully within our wider environment. But what fate awaits us for passing on less than those before gave us? What will this fate look like? Whether it’s served as payback, atonement, purgatory, or plain old revenge – what happens next?
Franca Barraclough, Rupert Betheras, Fabian Brown, Jonathon “World Peace” Bush, Liss Fenwick, Crystal Love Johnson Kerinaiua with Jens Johnita Cheung, Elizabeth Martin, Eve Pawlik, and Matthew van Roden these questions in this cautionary tale.
Matthew van Roden, Am I my brother’s keeper? (detail), 2022, wax, text and graphite on wooden panel. Courtesy the artist and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Northern Territory
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
29 September to 12 November 2022
Northern Territory
