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Destiny Deacon: Walk & Don’t Look Blak
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Destiny Deacon: Walk & don’t look blak is the first survey by this leading Australian Indigenous artist to be shown in Japan. Deacon’s international profile includes participating in the Yokohama Triennale of Contemporary Art, 2001 and Documenta 11, Kassel (Germany, 2002). Walk & don’t look blak spans fifteen years of Deacon’s career and highlights photographic, video and installation works that have established her in the Australian and international art worlds. Deacon creates uncanny, beautiful, frightening and funny vignettes of contemporary life from her domestic surrounds. For many years, she has photographed her family and friends in staged scenarios augmented by props and costumes. Recurrent themes include landscape, portraiture, narrative and phantasmagoria. Deacon often incorporates her ‘Aboriginalia’ and black ‘dollie’ collections to illustrate these concerns. Dolls are given personality and life within melodramatic arrangements and Deacon’s trademark ‘blak’ humour. Exhibitions dates and venues: Wellington: 26 February – 1 May 2005, Adam Art Gallery Noumea: 1 June – 28 August 2005, Cultural Centre Tjibaou, Tokyo: 29 April – 11 June 2006, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Melbourne: 12 August – 5 November 2006, Ian Potter Museum of Art, This tour is supported by Arts Victoria, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Australia Council, the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body and Arts Victoria |
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