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Jumaadi,_ The Woman Who Married a Mountain_, 2013, performance documentation, Moscow Biennale, image courtesy the artist and Watters Gallery, Sydney © the artist, photograph: Natasha Polskaya
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Emily Floyd, The Outsider, 2005, dimensions variable, Image courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery © the artist
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Angelica Mesiti, The Colour of Saying (still, detail) 2015, 3-channel high definition digital video, the performance was originated in collaboration with and produced by Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden 2015. Image courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery © the artist, Photograph: Lilith Performance Studio
Exhibition
Telling Tales
2 Jun 2016 – 9 Oct 2016
Event times
MON-WED: 10am-5pm
THUR: 10am-9pm
FRI-SUN: 10am-5pm
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- 140 George St
- Sydney
New South Wales - 2000
- Australia
Travel Information
- Circular Quay or George Street
- Circular Quay Station
Telling Tales explores the varied, inventive approaches taken by leading Australian and international artists to narrative form.
About
Breaking away from a traditional linear format, their works instead offer cyclical and open-ended stories, narration through non-verbal communication or silence, and mysterious, incomplete narratives constructed through fragments and clues. Questions around authorship, truth and fiction emerge through some artists’ works whilst others embrace oral histories and live durational events, including shadow puppetry and opera, to convey their stories
