How Tony Albert’s childhood instinct became a radical art practice

Indigenous Australian artist Tony Albert has built a radical art practice around collecting Aboriginalia—kitsch household items featuring racist representations of Indigenous culture from mid-20th century Australia. Displayed en masse, these ashtrays, figurines, and tea towels become "an unsettling indictment of colonisation, displacement and erasure," Albert says. His Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition reasserts Indigenous control over identity representation.

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