Lunch Talk - Destiny Deacon

"I saw white people making art and I thought: It's not fair. I want to do this too. And I have a story to tell..." says aborigine-born Destiny Deacon at the opening of her talk held at the summer academy. The history of her people and the way they actually were not seen as people for a long time keeps resurfacing in her work.

Yet she is devoid of any anger. A smile on her face, she raises a fist and exclaims: We wanted what everybody had.

Behind her flickers the image of a black doll in front of a fence, talking or climbing it, we can't know.  "I like using dolls and inanimate objects in my photos, people get hungry or bored, they yawn and complain." Upon further questioning she admits that she also likes how " a doll is an empty object I can fill with ideas and meanings of my own."