• Anawana Haloba, When the Private Became Public, 2008, detail from video and sound installation in the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
  Courtesy the artist. Photograph: Greg Weight.
  

Anawana Haloba works with performance-based video and sound installations, using her own body as a medium. Haloba’s work explores the position of women within varied social and cultural contexts. In a number of works she has created ‘salt-licked maps’, tracing patterns in salt with her tongue as a performative gesture to represent the cultural barriers of language in immigrant experience. For the Sydney Biennale, Haloba’s video installation When the Private Became Public (2008) is based on a film made with five female participants from different cultural backgrounds, set against a harsh Australian desert landscape. The work explores the revolutionary turns that have resulted in women traversing the private realms and now entering into the public sphere traditionally not attributed to them – providing a contemporary perspective on pre-feminist ideologies.

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Anawana Haloba
Lamentations, 2006-07
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Loud Silence, 2005-07
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