Destiny Deacon: Walk + don’t look blak
26 February – 1 May 2005
A Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney touring exhibition, Walk & don’t look blak was the first museum survey by Australian indigenous artist Destiny Deacon.
Spanning fifteen years, this exhibition demonstrated Deacon’s versatile and innovative practice that questioned historical representations of Aboriginal people through the kitsch artefacts of popular culture; their playful appearance often shadowed by more sinister forces of racism, incarceration and violence.
Curated by Natalie King, Walk & don’t look blak drew out recurrent themes within Deacon’s prolific practice: landscape, portraiture, narrative and phantasmagoria. These themes intersect through repeated use of dolls and found objects, as well as Deacon’s revisiting of key images to foreground her recurrent investment in ideas of memory, intimacy, cruelty and loss.
Assisted by the Gordon Darling Foundation.
- 1999
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- 2016
- Linie Line Linea: Contemporary Drawing / Matthew Barney: DRAWING RESTRAINT
- River of Fundament
- Inhabiting Space
- Walker Evans: The Magazine Work / Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans / Patrick Pound: Documentary Intersect / Sonya Lacey: Newspaper for Vignelli
- Bad Visual Systems: Ruth Buchanan, Judith Hopf, Marianne Wex
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
- 2022