A quick visit today - just an hour or so. MVP was Candice Breitz's "Love Story" (2016) - previously retitled "Wilson Must Go", I think, but it's more recently been announced that Wilson is, indeed, gone (as in, no longer the NGV's security services provider).
In the first room, Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin performing extracts from the much longer (three to four hour) accounts, given direct to camera, by six asylum seekers (which appear in the following room): "Sarah Mardini, who escaped war-torn Syria; Jose Maria Joao, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Saveri, an Indian transgender activist; Luis Nava Molero, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, a young atheist from Somalia". Wonderful piece of art, reminded me of the importance of hearing people's stories, and of course who gets to tell them.
Breitz is also the artist who did the Madonna (and, I think, Michael Jackson, and maybe others?) singing videos. I like her style.
(first visit; second visit)
In the first room, Julianne Moore and Alec Baldwin performing extracts from the much longer (three to four hour) accounts, given direct to camera, by six asylum seekers (which appear in the following room): "Sarah Mardini, who escaped war-torn Syria; Jose Maria Joao, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Saveri, an Indian transgender activist; Luis Nava Molero, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, a young atheist from Somalia". Wonderful piece of art, reminded me of the importance of hearing people's stories, and of course who gets to tell them.
Breitz is also the artist who did the Madonna (and, I think, Michael Jackson, and maybe others?) singing videos. I like her style.
(first visit; second visit)
