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South Sudan Artist Explores African Immigration to Australia

A South Sudanese artist exhibited her portrait photographs at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne in 2019. 

What Atong Atem didn’t know was the building that houses the museum used to be the Customs House. The building tied Australia to the rest of the world all the way back to the 19th century. Not only were goods taxed and traded there, but the Immigration Office was also located there, and poll taxes were gathered from Chinese goldminers.

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Banskia, Atem’s first video work was debuted in the Illuminate Adelaide festival. Banksia alludes to the history of African immigration to Australia. It leans on the complexity of historical and contemporary narratives of the immigrant and their migration. Banksia was shown on a large screen out in front of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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