A joint archival photographic exhibition I shared with Hayley Millar-Baker in July 2019, at Melbourne's Trocadero Art Gallery.
“this could say what the person didn’t.
explain not just how we got here but where next
what those people before meant, to these things, to one another.
asking questions of something that can’t answer.”
‘Inheritance’ is a trip through Hayley Millar-Baker and Alan Weedon’s inherited photographic archives from their paternal relatives: white men of an inter-war Australia that has since been confined to the history books.
For the artists, the world that is presented — Millar-Baker’s Grandfather and Weedon’s Father — is fragmented, as they died long before the artists were in a position to find out more.
What’s resulted is a place where narratives were frozen, giving their descendants the opportunity to investigate hidden truths, forced appearances, or sublimated desires.
