Indigenous artist Archie Moore has won the Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion, becoming the first Australian to take the top gong.
Already a subscriber?Tracing his Aboriginal relations back 65,000 years, Indigenous artist Archie Moore has drawn on his “connection to place” in his winning entry at a major European art exhibition.and took out the Golden Lion award for best national contribution.
In an interview before his win, Moore said the project’s name took inspiration from the old English definition of the word kith.“ countrymen, or one’s own land, which I saw as an Indigenous understanding of connection to place,” he said.Both Ancestry.com and state archives were used to research Moore’s own history as part of the work.
“When I went to school there was nothing mentioned about Indigenous history, it was all about the colonial project, agriculture, those kind of things, and nothing about my own Indigenous history,” he said.and storytelling “going right back to the first sunrise”.
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