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A fever of a memory

A black and white photograph of a man walking in a beam of light

Trent Parke
White Man - from the series Minutes to Midnight, 2001
Silver gelatin photograph

For A fever of a memory, guest curator Talia Smith has embraced the ghosts within the Murray Art Museum Albury collection. Traces of lives, moments and histories are embedded within artworks that make up museum collections. These collections can be places of heaviness, where limitations of knowledge and care become apparent as can the presence of histories that favour erasure and exploitation. It is then no wonder that collections can sometimes be thought of as haunted.

In recent years there has been a move towards understanding and working with rather than against the complicated histories of archives and collections. Just as there will always be more voices and stories that need to be included in these conversations there are also the ghosts of the past that will always remain.

Rather than seeking to establish one clear narrative through the MAMA collection, A fever of a memory looks to explore the idea of haunting and what it unearths.

A fever of a memory is presented as part of nginha: gathered here, a season of programming offering new perspectives on the MAMA collection.

About the curator
Talia Smith is an artist and curator from Aotearoa who is now based in Sydney, Australia. She is of Cook Island, Samoan and Pakeha heritage. Her curatorial practice examines notions of time, memory and the archive with a particular focus on lens based practices. She has curated exhibitions for organisations such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (Sydney), Singapore International Photography Festival, Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane) and University of Technology Sydney Gallery among others. She completed a Masters of Fine Arts from University of New South Wales in 2021 and currently works as the Coordinator of Programming at Blacktown Arts.

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