Naabámi (thou Shall/will See)

Résumé du livre

Exhibition catalogue: Naabami (thou shall/will see): Barangaroo (army of me): 116 pages + cover, with portrait images and text, accompanying the installation by First Nations artist Brenda L Croft at the Quentin Bryce Gallery, Embassy of Australia, Washington DC. The installation is of 60 large-scale photomedia portraits of contemporary First Nations women and girls, made from 19th century wet plate collodion and digital processes. The portraits "reflect diverse representation of Barangaroo's ongoing inspiration, cultural continuity and connection to spirit and place". "Photographed in Canberra and Sydney from 2019 - 2022, some of the participants include women and girls photographed by Croft spanning three decades, and some are first-time subjects. Several generations of families are portrayed; some participants were first photographed as children, now represented as steadfast young women; sisters, aunties, mothers, grandmothers.Cultural affiliations range from the southeast to the northern regions of the continent. Contemporary First Nations sovereign warriors grounded in their First Nations sovereignty. Their steady collective gaze - inward and outward - reflects the steadfast sovereign actions of Cammeraygal warrior woman Barangaroo, more than two centuries after she lived and died on her traditional homelands, now known as Sydney.".