The Truth is Out There - Yinka Shonibare

Solo show at Anna Schwartz Gallery at CarriageWorks. 2012
Date: 27 June, 2012 until 11 August, 2012
Organiser: Anna Schwartz Gallery

“Shonibare’s Sydney exhibition, Invasion, Escape: Aliens Do It Right!, features new paintings, drawings and sculptures, including two “flying machines”.

The central work is a massive “Alien Painting”, consisting of 75 round batik paintings studded with Lego men and Star Wars paraphernalia, playing again with notions of citizenship and nationalism.

Twenty-four drawings on paper deal specifically with Australia’s migration history, incorporating passenger lists from England, accounts of the Tampa crisis and detention centre locations. The drawings are arranged in the shape of the Aboriginal flag.”

The above descriptions of Invasion, Escape: Aliens Do It Right! exhibition by Yinka Shonibare was written by Steve Dow and appeared in Spectrum, a weekend supplement of the Sydney Morning Herald, June 16-17 2012, pages 10-11. The exhibition took place at Anna Schwartz Gallery, June 27 - August 11 2012. The exhibition featured, in part, Shonibare’s ‘Aliens’ such as those he had made for exhibitions in the UK some years earlier, and Flying Machines’, such as those he had made for exhibitions in the US, again, some years earlier.

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Article relating to an exhibition, 2012