Carriageworks, Sydney Biennale, 2016.
Curated by Dr Stephanie Rosenthal.
“Gerald Machona’s multifaceted artistic practice spans a diverse range of mediums, including sculpture, video, photography, performance and installation. By creating characters that reference ‘Nyau’, forms of ritual dance incorporating masks originating in the Chewa villages of central Malawi, Machona explores performance as a means of arbitration and communication, providing insight into cultural identity and challenging intolerance. His innovative use of decommissioned currency as a key material enables the artist to examine the impact and significance of historical migration on the African continent, linking the events of the past with contemporary issues of diasporic migration, xenophobic intolerance and violence in South Africa…” *
camera: lx100
