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Portrait of a woman with her face painted blue and embellished with gold stars, wearing a colourful, fan-like headdress.
30 Oct – 14 Jun

Passage: The Art of Atong Atem

  • Free
  • Art

NGV presents the first-ever major solo exhibition of South Sudanese, Melbourne-based contemporary artist Atong Atem, who is celebrated for her dynamic and vibrant photographic self-portraits that explore identity, mythmaking and intergenerational storytelling.

Transforming herself through textiles, paint, costume and symbolic objects, Atem uses her own body as a vessel to explore themes of race, gender and colonialism, as well as the beauty and resilience of her Dinka Bor culture and Melbourne's African diaspora. The exhibition showcases how Atem uses photography as a medium for celebration and reclamation, and how her practice interrogates how identity is performed, both in everyday life and before the camera, creating images in which history, memory and imagination intertwine.

Hours

Date Times
Fri 30 Oct
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Sat 31 Oct
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Sun 1 Nov
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Mon 2 Nov
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Tue 3 Nov
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Wed 4 Nov
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Thu 5 Nov
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Fri 6 Nov
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Sat 7 Nov
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Sun 8 Nov
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Mon 9 Nov
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Tue 10 Nov
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Wed 11 Nov
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Thu 12 Nov
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Fri 13 Nov
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Sat 14 Nov
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Sun 15 Nov
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Mon 16 Nov
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Tue 17 Nov
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Wed 18 Nov
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Thu 19 Nov
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Fri 20 Nov
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Sun 22 Nov
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Mon 23 Nov
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Wed 25 Nov
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Thu 26 Nov
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Sat 28 Nov
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Mon 30 Nov
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  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Tue 1 Jun
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
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Sun 6 Jun
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Mon 7 Jun
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Tue 8 Jun
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
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Thu 10 Jun
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
Fri 11 Jun
  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm
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  • 10am - 5pm 10:00am - 5:00pm

Location

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
Russell St
Melbourne 3000

Open in maps location for The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Price and bookings

This is a free event

Booking not required

Contact details

  • telephone number: 03 8620 2222
  • email address: ngvenquiries@ngv.vic.gov.au
  • Visit website for Passage: The Art of Atong Atem
Facebook page for Passage: The Art of Atong Atem Instagram page for Passage: The Art of Atong Atem

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