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Podcast: EMPIRE LINES
Episode: Story, Place, Tony Albert (2023) (EMPIRE LINES x Sullivan+Strumph, Frieze London)
Description: Artist and curator Tony Albert collects Aboriginalia, colonial kitsch still found in Australia’s second-hand and souvenir shops, to reconstruct historic racial stereotypes and reclaim contemporary Indigenous experiences.
From ‘Picanniny Floor Polish’ to ‘Bally Boomerang Pinball Machines’, Sydney-based artist and collector Tony Albert has long been fascinated by Australiana, tourist objects which attempt to define, and commodify, Aboriginal and Torres Strati Islander peoples. Transforming them into grand sculptural installations, his works are political interventions with these vintage objects, and reappropriations of their use and meaning - which refuse to shy away from the shameful status they now hold.
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