WINDOW GALLERY x Darren Blackman
Kancel Kolony Kulcha
28 June – 23 July 2023
Image: Darren Blackman, Kancel Kulcha Kolony (2023), courtesy of the artist and Onespace Gallery. Photo: Louis Lim
During the last 10 years, ‘cancel culture’ has evolved into a global phenomenon creating division in mainstream culture.
In Australia, historical truth telling has caused outrage as an attack on ‘traditional’ values. Since the landmark Mabo decision, the gradual repatriation of indigenous culture and knowledges threatens the Eurocentric narrative. The irony of those claiming ‘indigenous perspectives’ introduced in education cancels culture, missed the Terra Nullius memo.
The truth hurts.
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Outer Space Window Gallery
2R-C, 420 Brunswick Street
Fortitude Valley Q 4006
(map here)
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Darren Blackman is a Gureng Gureng and Gangulu multidisciplinary artist. Blackman’s ancestors were forbidden to speak their own language so in turn, he utilises text as a process of decolonisation. Dismantling narratives via loaded text, he mongrelises the king’s English. Layers of text are scribed and stencilled into each work on canvas, paper and textiles.
