Invocations #2, 2000, Tracey Moffatt
Silkscreen, 123cm x 101cm
Provenance: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Private Collection, Sydney. Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney. Minter Ellison Collection, Sydney. Sotheby’s Australia, Sydney.
Exhibited: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney 2000.
One of the most successful artists in modern Australia, Tracey Moffatt practices as both a photographer and filmmaker. Her films, including Nightcries – A Rural Tragedy, 1989, and Bedevil, 1993, have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival, the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York and the National Centre for Photography in Paris. Moffat represented Australia in the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017 with her photographic exhibition ‘My Horizon’ (1).
Derived from Moffat’s own dreams, this is part two of the 13 piece Invocations series of silkscreened photographs. She carries this inspiration into her work with a dreamlike presentation of broken narratives and highly dramatic scenarios. The story presented in Moffatt’s dream is in three parts, a little girl in a forest, a couple in a wasteland, and nightmare gathering of ghouls (2).
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