Archie Moore, Kamilaroi-Bigambul artist, winner of the Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at the 2024 Venice Biennale with kith and kin, is now with his artwork at Tate in UK and at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Australia.
Before the closing of The Biennale in Venice during the month of November, Tate acquired kith and kin in partnership with Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art in Australia. Supported by Creative Australia and the Australian government, will allow the installation to be an everlasting testimony among the new generations.
Archie Moore conceives by drawing a 65,000-year-long map composed of 2,400 family generations in a family tree made by hand with chalk. The Natives along generations between life, satisfactions, injustices and death for an identity that remains traced without being erased or forgotten.
In the statements made, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Director, Chris Saines CNZM “Encountering Archie Moore’s kith and kin at the Venice Biennale was a spectacular and moving experience that resonated with the weight of history and ancestry”, Tate Director Maria Balshaw “kith and kin is both highly personal and political, and it offers a powerful meditation on humanity’s interconnections stretching back into deep time”, Archie Moore, “I am so grateful for this generous donation that enables kith and kin to be seen both in Australia and overseas, in the near and distant future”.
It is not often that a work is acquired by a Museum in the middle of a major cultural event but, in this case the fragility of its composition combined with the danger of its fragmentation meant that Tate and Queensland Art Galleries laid the foundations for a major acquisition.
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