STUDIO presents: In your house

Dwelling (Victorian Issue) (2022) at Gertrude Contemporary, is the fourth iteration of artist Archie Moore’s large-scale installation Dwelling. Archie (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) was born in Tara in 1970, 171 kilometres northwest of Toowoomba. He currently lives in Ngudooroo (Lamb Island) QLD where this conversation took place. Dwelling (Victorian Issue) is a recreation of Archie’s childhood home and considers ideas of archaic residue, time travel, constructed narratives, and memory. His practice is embedded in Aboriginal politics and the wider ramifications of racism.

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