BLOOD RED
Native Police Tracker Hut 2
2016/2017
Native Police Tracker Hut 1
2016/2017
Detail
2016/2017
Black Tracker Family Portrait
2016/2017
Native Police Tracker Hut 3
2016/2017
9
2016/2017
16
2016/2017
Single Indigenous Female
2016/2017
Single White Female
2016/2017
Native Police Tracker Hut 2 Full
2016/2017
6
2016/2017
Bleeding Face
2016/2017
Headshot #2
2016/2017
Headshot + Toothpick
2016/2017
Detail
2016/2017
Cacophony
2016/2017
Landscape with Numbers
2016/2017
BLOOD RED brings together a body of new, large-scale photographic works completed in Coen, a remote Indigenous community in Cape York, Far North Queensland. Working in consultation with Coen artist Naomi Hobson and traditional owners from the Coen region and in close collaboration with community elders, teachers, police, stockmen and actors, Semu and Hobson negotiated a dialogue with displaced peoples of Coen and beyond. His project renders tangible archival and remembered testimony of their experience as a chorus of silent injustice that challenges colonisers’ accounts of Australian history. Semu has worked like a filmmaker, zeroing in on, re-enacting and upscaling as gigantic photographs the brutal evidence of Coen’s frontier wars for the purpose of remembering the past and acknowledging present injustice and discrimination.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2017
Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Supported by Australian Council for the Arts, Queensland Government, Australian Government, Cairns Art Gallery & Alcaston Gallery
