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Dubai Photo Exhibition 2016 : Asia and Oceania

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The Asian and Oceanian (Australia) artworks were selected by 6 curators representing 6 countries : Australia curated by Alasdair Foster, China by Huang Yihuang, India by Devika Singh, Japan by Mariko Takeuchi, Korea by Sunhee KIM and UAE by Jassim Al Awadhi.

• Australia
Australia can seem a paradoxical place. It is an island with many types of landscapes – from tropical rainforests to temperate farmlands, but the majority of its 7.5 million square kilometres is hot, dry and inhospitable. It is home to the world’s oldest living cultures, those of the many nations of indigenous peoples. These cultures reach back over 60,000 years, yet today the majority of Australians are immigrants or born of families who arrived but a few generations ago.
This exhibition introduces the work of eight photographers who each touch on an aspect of life in Australia. Divided into four sections, they address variously the Land, the Nation, the Home and the Past. Their work casts interesting perspectives on life in the antipodes which, while they are personal and often idiosyncratic, raise some salient questions about where and how we live.
In each pairing, one body of work is from the 20th century and one from the 21st century. This also highlights some of the shifting concerns, modes and styles of photographers across the decades: from the aesthetic constructions of pictorialism to the formal clarity of modernism and on through the eclectic criticality of postmodernism to the protean, fast-flowing age of the digital.
Alasdair Foster

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