Publisher Note
Moffatt’s art is sharpened with pain and humour. In works such as Something More and, most explicitly, Laudanum, 1998, she engages the rhetorical confusions of racism through the sado-masochistic dynamic of the colonised subject. Indeed, her avowed ambivalence about being categorised as an Indigenous artist is at odds with her commitment to the fostering of Aboriginal culture, and to the central place of Indigeneity in her work. This seeming contradiction – an apparent moral inconsistency – is resolved in her dedication to the accoutrements of success: as much as Moffatt’s work is about pain, it is also about glamour. Moffatt’s vision is essentially theatrical, and one might argue that being an art-star – with all its attendant posturing – is as much a part of her practice as the art itself.
Published on the occasion of the1999 exhibition at the Centre Cultural de la Fundacio "la Caixa".
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| Release Place | Barcelona, Spain |
| Edition | 1st edition |
| Release Date | 1999 |
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Artist:
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ISBN-13:
978-8476646496
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| Topics | Aborigines, Decolonialism, Humour, Indigenous, Pain |
| Language | Spanish |
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| Format | Softcover |
| Dimensions | 24.4 × 29.6 cm |
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| Pages | 110 |
