Three Indigenous artists are representing Australia at the 2023 Gwangju Biennale, fascinating audiences who rarely see art from the world’s oldest living culture
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“In civilisations like Asia, we understand what long history means, and being questioned by modernist or western thinking – I distinctly remember feeling that all these traditional Korean ways were wrong or inferior,” she says. “Certain aspects of this recent interest in Indigenous art are still quite colonial in only looking at the differences of all these things and not really understanding where this deep culture comes from – so my interest is about what their cultural experience might have been.”
Muffler’s well-known Healing Country series, rendered in black and white dot and line work, is on show in Gwangju, while the Anmatyerre elder Kngwarreye’s signature stripe paintings immediately catch the eye upon wandering into the exhibition’s Ancestral Voices section.Watson takes the most unconventional and contemporary approach of the three, weaving together science, nature and family histories in her mesmerising esoteric maps.
These works – some of which Watson made in collaboration with other artists – are made of natural ingredients gathered around the rivers and creeks of Queensland and named for the places where they were found. “It’s embedded with lots of different meanings, both scientific and cultural,” Watson says.
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