{"id":14688,"date":"2022-06-15T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T05:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/stock\/this-brutal-world-2\/"},"modified":"2023-01-19T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T03:30:49","slug":"this-brutal-world-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/stock\/this-brutal-world-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Brutal World"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">c-type print on Fuji Pearl Metallic Paper<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">120 x 120 cm<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">edition 1 of 6 + 2AP<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">$14,000 framed in black<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Commissioned by the Australian Centre for Photography for the exhibition <i>Under the sun: Reimagining Max Dupain\u2019s Sunbaker.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">EXHIBITED<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Under the sun: Reimagining Max Dupain\u2019s Sunbaker at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, 2017<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">WALL POWER: Contemporary Australian Photography, traveling between Cologne, Berlin, London, Paris, with Michael Reid Sydney + Berlin, with support of the Australian Government as part of the cultural<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"s1\">initiative Australia now, 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">With <i>This Brutal World, <\/i>Christian Thompson focuses on portraiture and its ability to trouble the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">relationship between past and present. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Where Dupain\u2019s <i>Sunbaker<\/i> supposedly conveys a quintessential Australian identity, Thompson reminds us of assimilation policies first outlined at the Aboriginal Welfare Initial Conference of Commonwealth and State Aboriginal Authorities in 1937. Here the artist wears a costume borrowed from London\u2019s National Theatre. His eyes are covered with dried roses and his body is superimposed on the glittering shallow creek beds \u2013 images captured during trips to his traditional homelands in outback Queensland. Thompson employs references to the natural world to evoke spirituality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14689,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14688","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"location-sydney","7":"product_cat-private-sales","8":"product_shipping_class-large-works","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"taxable","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14688"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14688"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelreid.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}