Australia. Antipodean Stories at PAC Milano challenges colonial narratives

The PAC in Milan hosts 'Australia. Antipodean Stories', a radical exhibition curated by Eugenio Viola with Judith Blackall, running from 2020. The show deliberately avoids tourist clichés like dot painting and didgeridoos, instead confronting the genocide of Aboriginal peoples through contemporary art. Works include Richard Bell's black map exposing the 'terra nullius' lie, Vernon Ah Kee's graphite drawings of floggings, Destiny Deacon's unsettling photographs, Christian Thompson's masked self-portraits, Mike Parr's mural mourning recent bushfires, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu's symbolic drawings on acetate, and Fiona Hall's installation on the 1830 Tasmanian genocide. Marco Fusinato's banner 'This is not my world' adds a provocative note. The exhibition centers on performative poetics across media, offering a non-cathartic, anti-exhaustive journey through Australia's complex ethnic, linguistic, and religious tapestry, prioritizing Indigenous voices.