Australian National Gallery Covers Palestinian Flags, Citing ‘High-Level Security Risk’
February 20, 2025SHAME!!
Two Palestinian flags on a tapestry on display at the National Gallery of Australia have been concealed with white fabric, in what the artists have described as an act of censorship they only agreed to reluctantly.
The large tapestry is part of the Te Paepae Aora’i – Where the Gods Cannot be Fooled exhibition, a group show by Pacific Indigenous art collective SaVĀge K’lub. The work features a number of flags, including the Aboriginal flag and the words “justice now”, the Torres Strait Islander flag, the West Papua flag, along with other Moana and Pacific peoples’ symbols, insignia and social justice slogans.
The exhibition’s curator and founder of the SaVĀge K’lub, Rosanna Raymond, who is based in New Zealand, told Guardian Australia “we were censored over that work” by the NGA.
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