Artist field note

Gordon Bennett

Australian history is an image system that can be dismantled.

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The Coming of the Light by Gordon Bennett
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The Coming of the Light

1987

A national story of enlightenment is turned back toward invasion, religion and cultural violence.

The five in one idea

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