Artist field note

Gordon Bennett

Australian history is an image system that can be dismantled.

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Possession Island (Abstraction) by Gordon Bennett
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Possession Island (Abstraction)

1991

A colonial scene is overlaid with modernist geometry, exposing possession as both image and ideology.

The five in one idea

Bennett made appropriation an exacting instrument for exposing how colonial power hides inside familiar pictures.