Bone with a hole
Mira Oosterweghel
19 May–5 Jun 2021
Bone with a hole, (2021) is a new work exploring Mira’s childhood memories of spending time on her grandparents farm, consuming and reproducing stories of labour and landscape. Grappling with these personal memories, the work uses text, performance and humour to challenge dominant Australian narratives.
Bone with a hole (2021) is a new work exploring Mira’s childhood memories of spending time on her grandparents farm, consuming and reproducing stories of labour and landscape.
This program takes place on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise that sovereignty was never ceded - this land is stolen land. We pay respects to Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, to the Elders from other communities and to any other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders who might encounter or participate in the program.
Mira Oosterweghel is an artist living and working on the stolen lands of the people of the Kulin Nations. Her recent work is informed by settler narratives and her childhood experiences of farm life and working in a shearing shed on Gunditjmara land. Selected exhibitions include: Objects for ruminant restraint, 2019 at Bus Projects; Figuratively Speaking, 2018 curated by Laura Lantieri at CCP; Fake it til you make it or you’ve got the power, 2017 at TCB Art Inc; Primavera 2016, curated by Emily McCormack at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Screen as a Room, 2016 curated by Nikki Lam at the Substation, Melbourne.
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