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Indigenous people are buried in the central sectionâincluding the artistâs own grandmotherâwhile migrant labourers are interred at the bottom in an area which floods heavily. Thompson worked with the Fiji museum and the minister of culture in Fiji, to obtain permission to excavate the remains of damaged headstones and to repair their sites of excavation. Sucu Mate/Born Dead brings attention to the complicated historical interrelationships between cultures in the
Pacific region, and highlights broader histories of exploitation central to colonisation.
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This cemetery contains the graves of colonial migrant labourers from India, China, and elsewhere in Asia, who were indentured to sugarcane plantations. The cemetery is segregated along racial and social hierarchies. Colonisersâ graves occupy the upper part of the graveyard, which is set on a hill.
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is a silent film shot on 16mm black and white film. Commissioned by the
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, the work was completed when Thompson was artist in residence at Chisenhale Gallery. The film shows consecutive images of two young black men in portrait view (face and upper torso), wearing
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