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March 5, 2008
Destiny Deacon has an exhibition at Tandanya as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts 2008. Deacon and her friends have masked themselves in long-johns and assumed the role of Aussie fanatics, re-enacting current events with sinister humour. Crudely drawn faces, with messy lipsticked mouths, send up the anonymity (a tool of fear) sought by masked terrorists.
Destiny Deacon, the Goodie Hoodie Family, Whacked, 2007, Lightjet print from Polaroid original
Daily Serving interprets the work as a reflecting on recent events such as the racially motivated 2005 Cronulla riots, Deacon through her use of black humor, reflects on the increased sense of xenophobia caused by the fear of terrorism.
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