With visual traditions often reinforcing the colonial gaze, framing Country as available for possession, empty, picturesque, the idea of ‘landscape’ has been bound up with extraction, possession, and the erasure of First Nations presence.
In Rewriting Landscapes, through photography and video, the artists destabilise inherited ways of seeing, offering instead works that are at once deeply personal and political. Celebrating photography and video as tools for expressing ancestral kinship, knowledge and lived experience, the practices here dismantle canonical representations while carving out new visual pathways rooted in cultural continuity.
Adelaide Contemporary Experimental
17 October to 12 December 2025
South Australia
Libby Harward (Ngugi), WARIBUL WAYIRA (hungry waterways), 2020, Mulgumpin-Lake Carrurra, digital film, 2.43sec
Courtesy the artist and Adelaide Contemporary Experimental, South Australia
