{"id":7688,"date":"2017-08-18T11:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/?p=7688"},"modified":"2017-08-18T11:32:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:32:23","slug":"tracey-moffatt-to-represent-australia-at-2017-venice-biennale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/tracey-moffatt-to-represent-australia-at-2017-venice-biennale\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracey Moffatt to represent Australia at 2017 Venice Biennale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tracey Moffatt – Courtesy Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

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Australia Council announces Tracey Moffatt\u2019s 2017 Venice Biennale exhibition<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tracey Moffatt:\u00a0My Horizon<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cMy Horizon<\/em>\u00a0is very open and can be read in many ways,\u201d said Moffatt. \u201cThe horizon line can represent the far and distant future or the unobtainable. There are times in life when we all can see what is \u2018coming over the horizon\u2019. This is when we make a move. Or we do nothing and just wait for whatever it is to arrive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through photography and film, Moffatt creates highly stylized narratives and montage to explore a range of themes including the complexities of interpersonal relationships, the curiousness of popular culture, and her own deeply felt childhood memories and fantasies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be an insightful and deeply moving exhibition, one that extends Tracey\u2019s acclaimed body of work and cements her position as one of Australia\u2019s most successful artists – someone who consistently takes the tempo of our times,\u201d said Naomi Milgrom AO, Australia\u2019s Commissioner for the 2017 Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n

The exhibition, to be launched in May 2017, will be accompanied by a major new book, published and distributed by Thames & Hudson. This will be the first time an artist representing Australia at the Venice Biennale will have a globally distributed accompanying publication.<\/p>\n

Exhibition Curator and publication editor Natalie King said, \u201cMY HORIZON will present a compendium of texts that reflect on Tracey\u2019s highly political and deeply personal fictions, allowing readers to ponder what might be over the horizon.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moffatt first received critical acclaim with the short film Night Cries which was selected for official competition at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival. Her first feature film, bedevil was also selected for Cannes in 1993, and in 1997 she was invited to exhibit in the Aperto section of the Venice Biennale.<\/p>\n

An exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York followed, consolidating her international reputation. Since then Moffatt has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries across the globe, with more than 100 international exhibitions including a highly prestigious 2012 solo show at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art. She also received the 2007 Infinity Award for Art from New York\u2019s esteemed International Center of Photography.<\/p>\n

Moffatt will be the second artist to exhibit in the award-winning Australian Pavilion in Venice\u2019s Giardini.<\/p>\n

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The Australia Council for the Arts<\/a>\u00a0is the Australian Government\u2019s principal arts funding and advisory body.\u00a0Australia\u2019s participation<\/a>\u00a0at the Venice Biennale began in 1954, and has been managed by the Australia Council since 1978.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia Council announces Tracey Moffatt\u2019s 2017 Venice Biennale exhibition Tracey Moffatt:\u00a0My Horizon \u201cMy Horizon\u00a0is very open and can be read in many ways,\u201d said Moffatt. \u201cThe horizon line can represent the far and distant future or the unobtainable. There are times in life when we all can see what is \u2018coming over the horizon\u2019. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7690,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7688\/revisions\/7690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}