Equinox
Christian Thompson
Christian Thompson (born 1978, Gawler, South Australia, Bidjara People) is a leading contemporary Australian photographer whose work explores notions of identity, cultural hybridity, and history. In many of Thompson’s photographs, he engages with the process of auto-ethnography. Merging a nuanced dream world and his autobiography, he draws out images that connect his own personal experience to wider social, political, and cultural meanings and understandings.
This exhibition features new photographs by Thompson. In this work, the artist is hidden beneath a wall of native Australian flowers. His piercing gaze acts as a metaphor for the internal emotional landscape, an expression of identity, and a gesture toward alternate narratives lying within the surface. Merging lived experience, the historical archive, and the contemporary present, Thompson’s work transcends the ethnographic gaze.
Michael Reid Berlin
7.09. – 27.10.2018
Vernissage 21.09.2018 6:00 pm
Location
Michael Reid BerlinAckerstraße 163
10115 Berlin - Mitte
T 030 94 40 47 19
www.facebook.com/michaelreidberlin
Wed–Sat 11–17 h
Public transport
U8 Rosenthaler Platz
S1, S2, S26 Berlin Nordbahnhof
Tram 12, M8 Pappelplatz
Admission price
Free admission