Lower East Side, New York
Group Exhibition
Papunya Tula: Meeting Place for All Brothers and Cousins
Foreign & DomesticSally Rowe Nakamarra Yalti Napangati Aubrey Tjangala Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi Angus Tjungurrayi Foreign & Domestic is delighted to present Papunya Tula: Meeting Place for all Brothers and Cousins, a group exhibition of five artists and members of the Pintupi language group and the Papunya Tula Artists collective of the Western Desert of Australia. Each painting relates to a specific site on the lands inhabited by the Pintupi; each site is associated with a specific Dreaming, or Tjukurrpa. A concept fundamental to the cosmology of Pintupi people and wider Aboriginal culture, the Tjukurrpa is simultaneously land, law and myth. An artist must be endowed with custodial rights - determined by intricate codes of age, gender and genealogy - to be permitted to paint a particular site. These paintings articulate the contemporary identity of Pintupi people within an interconnected map of genealogy, history, land rights, law, dreams, myths, dance, music, art, power, past and present.