In BLACK BEAUTY Nana Ohnesorge presents a series of paintings, works on paper and sculpture inspired by Australia’s First People and the artist’s deepening engagement with Aboriginal people. The work celebrates Aboriginal heroes and role models in our shared iconography, featuring portrait paintings of Bennelong, Linda Burney and Djon Mundine. Works on paper revisit and contemporalise historic depictions of Aboriginal people to highlight the humanity, beauty, dignity and strength of the First Australians and their culture. Simultaneously Ohnesorge continues to explore white Australia’s fraught relationship with its history by recoding the purpose of found objects in sculptural busts charged with political intent. Ohnesorge’s palette is unapologetically bold, rich in neon and anti-naturalistic hues, creating an immediate and palpable opposition to the picturesque. BLACK BEAUTY is Ohnesorge’s second solo exhibition at Galerie pompom.

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