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...seats we were facing.) Behind him, on 12 rows of bleachers than span the stage, a chorus of about 150 keened along. Once the plot kicks in, though, the music becomes westernized and, to these inexpert ears, neither daring in form nor instantly appealing in tune. The color scheme ?? rigid and vivid in Hero, wonderfully lurid in Golden Flower ? is not so much subtle here as absent: grays, mostly, with rare and welcome splashes of bright tones in a carpet laid down under the bleacher steps in Act I, and the chorus outfitted in striking robes...
...Children of the postmodernist late '80s, when large-scale color photography stepped boldly onto the world stage, Moffatt's minx, Henson's nymphs and Laing's flying bride have been among the most reproduced images in Australian art. Crombie helped define the moment, co-curating 1990's "Twenty Contemporary Australian Photographers: From the Hallmark Cards Australian Photographic Collection," and 17 years later the medium she returns to is quieter and less declarative. Walking through "Light Sensitive" at the Ian Potter Centre, one could be forgiven for thinking that the era of the defining image has passed. Pictures prefer to slink...
...blokes of David van Royen's domestic portraits-one a home handyman trapped in his glassed veranda, the other half-dressed on his bed, staring out beyond the noose of his window's chain pull, their masculine identities hovering uncertainly in the air. While Van Royen uses simple color printing, as do many of the photographers in the show, the lingering impression is of grayness. Even in the exhibition's most Day-Glo work, the bright-faced trio of teenage girls snacking on fast food in Darren Sylvester's If All We Have Is Each Other, That...
...Appropriately titled Tensio-Latin for tension-is Brook Andrew's mirrored image of a currawong poised as if to attack a coiled snake. These are in fact stuffed museum exhibits, reappropriated by this Aboriginal lensman to tell his own personal Dreaming story (as academic Marcia Langton tells it, "When color spread throughout the bird world, crows ignored their fellow birds and missed out, remaining black like the inchoate world from which life sprang"). If Andrew's silken surfaces seduce the eye, Liu Xiao Xian's My Other Lives #7, 2000, positively winks at us. Here the Beijing-born artist...
...France rejects affirmative action as incompatible with its republican ideals of color-blind equality for all citizens. Nice in theory, but that's not working in practice: discrimination continues, inequality is rife, and notions of color-blindness don't square with the rising chorus of racially loaded commentary. Color-blindness may also function to keep France blind to racial discrimination and inequality, but the rising tide of anger in the projects and racist chatter in the mainstream suggests that the French may soon have no choice but to openly confront what color-blindness prefers...