Object
2015
Medium
injkjet prints
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, Victorian Foundation for Living Australian Artists, 2015
© Michael Cook and Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
In this photographic tableau, set in an opulent nineteenth-century drawing room, Michael Cook stages a role reversal to address the global experience of slavery, as he states: ‘It’s the first body of work I’ve tried to get outside of Australia to relate to other colonised countries … but Australians shouldn’t forget the black-birding practices of Queensland’s sugar cane industry’.
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