Indigenous art depicting masks used in dances.

This installation changed from mirror image to black and back to mirror image as you walked past it.

Installation at the entance of the art museum.

Indigenous art featuring fishing implements.

Indigenous art featuring a canoe filled with painted snail shells.

This installation made a cool play on shadows.

A Chinese artist produced this piece to document her experience adjusting to a strange landscape.

Indigenous art done in impressionist style.

The museum featured a Yayoi Kusama installation.

This installation had a weird mix of labor camp imagery alongside McDonald's figurines.

Indigenous art documenting life on a cattle ranch.

This installation featured red threads anchored by body parts.

This Indigenous art was flood themed; the flood was meant to be literal and figurative.

One of Vincent Namatjira's pieces, featuring Trump and Putin.

Vincent Namatjira's installation also featured a wall of AC/DC inspired paintings.

Art Gallery of South Australia

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My next stop was the Art Gallery of South Australia. The highlight for me was the indigenous art displayed throughout the museum. There were two special exhibitions featuring indigenous art: one was focused on artist Vincent Namatjira, and the other was titled Tarnanthi, and it featured various indigenous artists.

One thing I found jarring about this museum was that each room had a theme, but the theme wasn’t immediately obvious in the art on display as each collection comprised of an anachronistic mix of old, new, European influenced, and indigenous art. Apart from the indigenous art collections, I enjoyed the surrealist themed room most.Lue lisää

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