Hearth - GRETEL TAYLOR

HEARTH

Gretel Taylor - Dance Laki Sideris - Camera Warren Smith – Piano
Whose place is this anyway, and do I fit in?
In this series of photographs, the familiarity of home is unstuck and re-rendered. Gretel’s body is curiously orientated in once-domestic spaces, probing questions of home, belonging, disjunction from and re-inhabitation of place. HEARTH was created in a ruined house on Maria Island, Tasmania, which has been part of the land and waters of the Puthikwilayti people for over 40,000 years, a penitentiary settlement from 1825-50 and is now a national park teeming with wildlife.

HEARTH was presented as part of 'House-Body' (MAP Moreland), curated by Tony Yap at Siteworks, Brunswick, Feb 2019.

I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi wurrung and neighbouring Bunurong and Boon wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands on which I live, work and dance. I pay deep respect to their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. I extend that respect to Traditional Owners of the many Countries on which I undertake my work and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. I pay deep respect to First Nations elders past and present, who have listened to Country and danced, sung and told stories in and about their places for millennia.