{"id":1925,"date":"2024-11-11T17:14:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/?post_type=exhibitions&#038;p=1925"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:35:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:35:59","slug":"isaac-julien-perth-festival-2022","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/exhibitions\/isaac-julien-perth-festival-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-intro-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS154_Red-Chamber-Dream_TTW_2010_FINAL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS154_Red-Chamber-Dream_TTW_2010_FINAL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS154_Red-Chamber-Dream_TTW_2010_FINAL-768x300.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS154_Red-Chamber-Dream_TTW_2010_FINAL-1536x600.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS154_Red-Chamber-Dream_TTW_2010_FINAL-2048x800.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Isaac Julien, <em>The Lady of the Lake (Lessons of the Hour)<\/em>, 2019, Framed gloss inkjet photograph mounted on aluminium, 160 x 213.29 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ten Thousand Waves<\/em> was a majestic multi-screen installation weaving together stories that link China\u2019s ancient past and present, reflecting upon the enduring spectre of human trafficking in relation to the 2004 Morecambe Bay tragedy in northern England, where 23 illegal Chinese immigrants lost their lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In its Australian premiere, <em>Lessons of the Hour<\/em> is a poetic meditation on the life of the visionary African American orator, philosopher and self-liberated slave, Frederick Douglass.\u00a0 Cited as the most photographed American in the 19th Century, Douglass was intimately aware of the expressive power of images and articulated his ground-breaking vision of how picture-making and photography could offer powerful tools in the fight for social justice and equal human rights for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Opening Event: <\/strong>10 February 2022<br><strong>Exhibition: <\/strong>11 February &#8211; 8 May 2022<br><strong>Supported By:<\/strong> Perth Festival Visual Arts Program supported by Wesfarmers Arts. This exhibition was a Perth Festival event presented in conjunction with the Adelaide Festival and SAMSTAG Art Museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS-0427_Lessons-of-The-Hour-Lessons-of-The-Hour-2019_1200x300px_CROP.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS-0427_Lessons-of-The-Hour-Lessons-of-The-Hour-2019_1200x300px_CROP.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IJS-0427_Lessons-of-The-Hour-Lessons-of-The-Hour-2019_1200x300px_CROP-768x192.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Lessons of the Hour (Lessons of the Hour)<\/em>, 2019, Framed photograph on matt archival paper, mounted on aluminium, 160 x 213.29 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=bunuru_season_catalogue_final_copy-part-3&#038;u=johncurtngallery\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">Header Image: Isaac Julien, <em>The Lady of the Lake (Lessons of the Hour)<\/em>, 2019, Framed gloss inkjet photograph mounted on aluminium, 160 x 213.29 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","exhibition-locations":[3],"class_list":["post-1925","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","hentry","exhibition-locations-john-curtin-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition-locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition-locations?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}