Greg SEMU

BLOOD RED

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Native Police Tracker Hut 2 2016/2017

Native Police Tracker Hut 2
2016/2017

Native Police Tracker Hut 1  2016/2017

Native Police Tracker Hut 1
2016/2017

Detail 2016/2017

Detail
2016/2017

Black Tracker Family Portrait 2016/2017

Black Tracker Family Portrait
2016/2017

Native Police Tracker Hut 3 2016/2017

Native Police Tracker Hut 3
2016/2017

9 2016/2017

9
2016/2017

16 2016/2017

16
2016/2017

Single Indigenous Female 2016/2017

Single Indigenous Female
2016/2017

Single White Female 2016/2017

Single White Female
2016/2017

Native Police Tracker Hut 2 Full 2016/2017

Native Police Tracker Hut 2 Full
2016/2017

6 2016/2017

6
2016/2017

Bleeding Face 2016/2017

Bleeding Face
2016/2017

Headshot #2 2016/2017

Headshot #2
2016/2017

Headshot + Toothpick 2016/2017

Headshot + Toothpick
2016/2017

Detail 2016/2017

Detail
2016/2017

 
Cacophony 2016/2017

Cacophony
2016/2017

Landscape with Numbers 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

 
 
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