AustLit

The politics of memory - who and what we remember, who and what we forget - and the nexus between power and those events which, no matter how disconnected, are constructed as a nation's 'history': these themes echo strongly in the anticolonial work of Swiss-Hatian artist Sasha Huber. Here, work is not a metaphor. 'It's not art', Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens says, 'its bloody work.' Like Dickens, who salvages discarded objects such as industrial farm machinery which seem to be burdened by - or implicated in - historical racism, there is nothing idle about Huber's approach to artmaking...' (from Introduction)