de-centre re-centre shines a spotlight on the strength and diversity of contemporary photography in Australia. The artists explore place, community and identity using a range of practices including staged image making, analogue processes and video.
Miriam Charlie is included in de-centre re-centre at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
In exploring place, community and identity in First Nations, diasporic and queer contexts, artists Ramak Bazmar, Torika Bolatagici, Miriam Charlie, Brenda L Croft, Gerwyn Davies, Mary-Lou Divilli, Amos Gerbhardt, Simryn Gill, Taloi Havini, Naomi Hobson, Nuriah Jadai, Kyle Archie Knight, Maria Maraltadj, Sherry Quiambao, Scotty So and Tace Stevens deftly navigate the politics of visibility to assert the presence and centrality of their subjects. Photographic conventions of portraiture and landscape are deployed and disrupted to present counternarratives to marginalisation. de-centre re-centre reflects on strategies for survival, bearing witness, care and resistance.
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