Samstag Gallery 1

Archie Moore’s (Kamilaroi/Bigambul) multifaceted art practice mines personal and institutional histories to devastatingly convey the insidiousness of racism, surveillance, the longing for recognition and the experience of misrecognition.

Moore’s new moving image work, a commission with the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival, presents the fifth iteration of his installation series Dwelling. Expanding and contracting according to the spatial parameters of each situation, Moore’s dwellings imaginatively recreate the mise-enscène of his past. An ongoing investigation of memory and the effects of colonisation, they draw on visual, auditory, haptic and olfactory elements in their staging.

For Samstag, Moore will present a large-scale immersive installation drawing on memories of his childhood bedroom and its constellation of objects, creating a powerful sense of
verisimilitude.

Moore's commission and associated exhibition at Samstag will follow the artist's showing at the prestigious 60th Venice Biennale of Art where he represented Australia and was awarded the coveted Golden Lion for his monumental intallation kith and kin.