Tracey Moffatt (Books)

Tracey Moffatt Books

Tracey Moffatt is an Australian artist renowned for her innovative work in photography and video. Her art frequently explores themes of identity, history, and cultural stereotypes. Moffatt employs strong visual narratives to investigate complex social issues. Her visually striking and thought-provoking creations establish her as a significant figure in contemporary art.

Tracey Moffatt - Laudanum

80 pages
3 hours of reading

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Since her exhibition at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York in 1997/98, Australian artist Tracey Moffatt has been one of the most-watched international artists. Of Aboriginal descent, Moffatt combines the artificial aspects of theater and film with a kinetic documentary approach to achieve highly emotional films and photographic series located on the border between reality and the surreal. Drawing on well-known pictorial styles from film, photography and art history and adopting elements of advertising and trash-TV, Moffatt explores existential themes -- sexuality and power, birth and death, desires, dreams and memories -- as well as Aboriginal related themes concerning the unknown, the outcast, and the marginal. Her visual scenarios are imbued with atmospheric strangeness and contradictory emotions. This book offers a representative selection of her work, including the until now unpublished 1998 series "laudanum".