The Visibility of Blackness (2018)
01:30 min
The Visibility of Blackness is a performance of remembering BE-ing; of the past, present and future. Narrated through generations of my matrilineal family, those that have come before and those that will come after, this work demonstrates the oneness of the Aboriginal experience across the indivisibility of time. The progression across these iterations not only manifests in uniting the western linear notions of time with the Aboriginal aspect of its indivisibility, for me this is personal; a reflection upon ‘growing up’, of maturing into my cultural remembering. Moving from the desire to have my external sovereignty recognised by the Colonial Project to embody the knowingness that my self-sovereignty matters most.
About the Artist
Amala Groom is a Wiradyuri conceptual artist, living on Wiradyuri Country in Bathurst NSW. Amala’s practice involves performing cultural sovereignty, informed and driven by First Nations epistemologies, ontologies and methodologies. Her work is a form of passionate activism, which presents acute and incisive commentary on contemporary socio-political issues. Articulated across diverse media, Amala’s work often subverts and unsettles western iconographies to enunciate Aboriginal stories, experiences, and histories, and to interrogate and undermine the legacy of colonialism. Extensive archival, legislative, and first-person research underpins Amala’s work, which is socially engaged, speaking truth to take a stand against hypocrisy, prejudice, violence and injustice.