State of Freedom
The nation is still grappling with its past so that Australians can be free to forge a future together, says the 2022 Adelaide Biennial curator Sebastian Goldspink. This sense of time is more complex than it seems, where the event’s works are both poetically and viscerally “informed” rather than “defined” by the current pandemic, as much as other tumultuous world events: Black Lives Matter, marriage equality, bushfires and environmental collapse.
Goldspink alighted on his Biennial title before seeing what most of the artists would produce for it, originally coining the
