Shadow Spirit, a new exhibition as part of Melbourne’s Rising festival, explores Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander stories around death, spirits, stars and dreams
While Flinders Street station is Australia’s oldest – known as Melbourne Terminus when it opened in 1854 – the heritage-listed ballroom and 11 additional rooms used in the exhibition date back to 1909 and have also recently featured exhibitions by sculptor Patricia Piccinini andYet, as Moulton points out, the Birrarung river upon which the station is situated was a gathering place for the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation from time immemorial.
Mok Mok by Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara artist Paola Balla and Deeply Rooted by Wiradjuri artist Karla Dickens .Down the corridor, an eerie video work by Wemba Wemba/Gunditjmara artist Paola Balla tells the story of Mok Mok, a female spirit known across Indigenous clans for stealing children and avenging violence against women by chopping up men.
Balla herself first began dressing as Mok Mok eight years ago. “Eight years on from the first series, violence against Aboriginal women has escalated even further,” she says. “We’ve lost more Aboriginal women in deaths in custody, and more Aboriginal kids are taken away. Mok Mok may be an entity from all times but she’s witnessing these atrocities taking place, so she’s still angry, and rightly so.”Moulton points to strong correlations of “matrilineal power” and “ecofeminism” between the works of Balla and Wiradjuri artistand Keerray Wooroong/Gunditjmara artist Vicki Couzens, all housed together in the exhibition’s eastern wing.
Dickens’s four new sculptures, collectively titled Deeply Rooted, present sections of trees cut down on farmland across the northern rivers to make way for new highways, to which she has added ornamentation such as a female Aboriginal figurine with a petrol pump for an arm. Couzens’s installation is a giant sculpture of a bandicoot, the companion of Peert Koorook, a female devil spirit “tall as a gum tree” who guards women’s Country on her mob’s lands.
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