At Mona, Fiona Hall and AJ King have built an immersive lament to the destructive forces of colonialism and male ego – but hope grows amid the wreckage
, some artists pulled out of the program – but Hall made a last-minute pivot instead, turning her space over to King and his community.
We arrive at the hut, built from stringybark harvested on country, and old burnt timber that’s getting a second life. In fact almost everything in this show is reused: Hall’s multifaceted career is defined as much by her craftsmanship as it is her passion for recycling. If the doors lend the cabin a storybook quality, the wall at the back made of coloured plastic bottles evokes the stained glass windows of a chapel – which has a burnt wooden coffin at its centre. Inside, the cabin’s walls are lined with more charred books: these ones open on documentary photographs depicting war, despots, colonists and dictators .
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