Picturing the old people by Genevieve Grieves is a series of captured images on exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. The films are the imagined goings on at staged studio renderings, where Aboriginal participants were encouraged to engage in performances to make themselves seem "more Aboriginal". The pieces are based on actual photographs studied by Grieves from archives.
The recordings are in black and white and you can sit by each film/photograph in the darkened room. It is really intimate and enchanting. The pictures are of two youths who captivated me.
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