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Mia Boe: The Aboriginal Robot
One canvas grids up the country as per map into a territory for extraction and evisceration. Another shows an oil or gas rig, its drill bit dripping gore. The incarnadine landscapes are assuredly Surrealist (think Leonara Carrington rather than Dal铆) and also remindful of Boe鈥檚 landscapes responding to the 2020 bushfires on K鈥檊ari in her 2021 exhibition K鈥檊ari means paradise in Butchulla. But these works are more deathful and more pitilessly presentist in their representation of our hi-tech doom-loop of subjection and domination. The land is dying, not fructifying. There鈥檚 nothing to eat. On the plate of one blak figure, loaves have turned to stones.
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One canvas grids up the country as per map into a territory for extraction and evisceration. Another shows an oil or gas rig, its drill bit dripping gore. The incarnadine landscapes are assuredly Surrealist (think Leonara Carrington rather than Dal铆) and also remindful of Boe鈥檚 landscapes responding to the 2020 bushfires on K鈥檊ari in her 2021 exhibition K鈥檊ari means paradise in Butchulla. But these works are more deathful and more pitilessly presentist in their representation of our hi-tech doom-loop of subjection and domination. The land is dying, not fructifying. There鈥檚 nothing to eat. On the plate of one blak figure, loaves have turned to stones.
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