Tracey Moffatt

Tracey Moffatt

Adventure Series and Love

16 March–23 April 200516 Mar–23 Apr 2005

Brisbane’s Tracey Moffatt is arguably Australia’s most internationally successful contemporary artist. Her photo-narratives take the form of films and photo-sequences. Her photo-sequence Adventure Series—inspired by Flying Doctor comics and the TV series The Rovers—satirises and celebrates the retro-cheesey ‘adventure’ genre. While Adventure Series suggests a story, it is little more than a collection of familiar tropes. A hunky pilot, a glamorous blonde and a sinister scuba diver join Moffatt in this outback fantasy, replete with Aboriginal encounters and foul play, all staged in front of scrupulously fake painted sets. Alongside Moffatt presents her playful video Love—a collaboration with Gary Hillberg. This montage of hundreds of cliche-sodden clips from well-known Hollywood films charts how love can quickly dissolve eventually leading to cathartic violence. Adventure Series was produced during an IMA residency.

The IMA acknowledges, thanks, and pays our deepest respect to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people that we work with and the Country we work on. 

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