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The Burning

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Tracey Moffatt
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Installation view, Tracey Moffatt, 'The Burning', Photo: David Suyasa.⁠
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Location: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Soudan Lane, Paddington NSW, Australia
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Genres: Fine-Art
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A new exhibition of work by acclaimed photographer Tracey Moffatt is on display at Roslyn Oxley9

“It is a Wild West, a frontier. A woman in a Victorian era black dress is out for revenge. A shirtless youth grins in the shadows.

With a simmering intensity, the story reveals itself in the dark.”

Tracey Moffatt

Across a gothic dreamscape, the images of ‘The Burning’ have no sharp focus – bordering on the intangible, they change like moving sand when viewed from different angles and in different light. With other-worldly hues, and a film of dirt, a mist stirs in the burning landscape. Images struggle to stay together – they fall apart on the edge of evaporation.⁠
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It is a Wild West, a frontier. A woman in a Victorian era black dress is out for revenge. A shirtless youth grins in the shadows. With a simmering intensity, the story reveals itself in the dark.⁠
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“Some time back, I travelled with a small photo crew to one of my Indigenous family’s ancestral areas looking for locations to stage a new photo drama using myself and actors… The locations I uncovered were visually featureless – meaning no great dramatic mountain range, forests or even a decent desert-scape – I only found endless dry brown scrub. In a sense, the plainness of the location and the dirt triggered my fictional open-ended narrative. I attempted to ‘fill it in’ as if to paint across a blank canvas.” – Tracey Moffatt, 2024⁠

Text courtesy of Roslyn Oxley9

This event has concluded
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Location: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Soudan Lane, Paddington NSW, Australia
Hours:
Entry Fee: Free
Genres: Fine-Art
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