In his first exhibition since winning the prestigious Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Biennale, Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore has announced he will be presenting a new moving image work at the University of South Australia's Samstag Museum of Art - as part of the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival.
Archie Moore: AFF and Samstag Moving Image Commission 2024 will feature as part of the Wirltuti ('spring' in Kaurna) season of exhibitions that run from the October 11 to November 29.
Sponsored by Dr David Bunton and Helen Stacey-Bunton, Archie Moore will be a UniSA Pirku murititya Visiting Research Fellowduring October 2024.
During this time, Moore will transform the Samstag gallery with a meticulously recreated replica of his childhood home. This piece will be Moore's fifth iteration of his series Dwelling, installations that explore the rooms and spaces of his childhood family home.
Described as an ongoing investigation of memory and effects of colonisation, the exhibition draws on visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory elements in its staging. Moore has also worked closely with filmmaker Molly Reynolds (Charlie's Country, David Gulpillil) to realise the ambitious project.
Director at Samstag Museum of Art Erica Green, shared that it's been an honour to work closely with Moore over the past two years on his forthcoming work.
"24 years ago, Archie was awarded the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, as a recent art school graduate. Since then, he's gone on to build a remarkable career of international standing," she said.
"Archie's new moving image work is part of the 13th Adelaide Film Festival and Samstag Art and Moving Image Commission. Our Wirltuti Season of exhibitions is a testament to our proud, long-standing and fruitful relationship with the Adelaide Film Festival that supports exceptional artists to create bold and visionary work."
Samstag will also premiere the inaugural AFF/Samstag 2024 Expand Moving Image Commission featuring a series of experimental docu-fiction moving image works by artists Susan Norrie, Matthew Thorne and Emmaline Zanelli.
In three chapters, these artists follow the narrative threads of mining in Australia, focusing on fly-in-fly-out workers, their families, environmental impacts and the complex relationship experienced by First Nations custodians of the land on which the resource extraction takes place.
Together the artists and their work offer counter-perspectives to frequently cliched assumptions.
Samstag has a long history of commissioning and presenting screen-based works through its partnership with the Adelaide Film Festival. Previous art and moving image commissions have included Warwick Thornton (Stranded, 2011), Lynette Wallworth (Duality of Light, 2009) and Amos Gebhardt (Small acts of resistance, 2021).
The Samstag is open every Wednesday from 10am-12pm. Entry is free.
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