Upcoming - Museo Del Oro Robado (Museum of Stolen Gold)

JOSHUA SEARLE

MUSEO DEL ORO ROBADO
MUSEUM OF STOLEN GOLD

THU 13 JUN - SAT 10 AUG
DAWN TO MIDNIGHT

EXHIBITION (VIEW FROM 37 DAVEY STREET FRONT)
CUBE 37, GLASS CUBE GALLERY

Image: Joshua Searle, (installation detail)

Joshua Searle (Australian/Colombian) examines and unpacks Pre- Columbian artefacts held in museum collections encountered through texts, as a means to further understand his own diasporic history and identity as an Australian-Colombian.
From an initial examination of collective cultural identity and societal impact to a more individual personal exploration, this exhibition includes paintings exploring practices of institutional collecting and impact of colonisation.
Searle undertakes a process of reclamation of his own identity as part of the colonial diaspora, and of the works themselves. Museo del Oro Robado (Museum of Stolen Gold) is a critique of institutionalised practices of theft. For the artist ‘stolen gold’ refers to both the literal and metaphoric gold taken by colonisation.