Commissioner: Victoria Lynn
\n\nCurator: Linda Michael
\n\nProject Manager: Global Art Projects
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Patricia Piccinini's exhibition We are Family was Australia's official presentation for The 50th Venice Biennale 2003.
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\n\nWithin the domestic spaces of the Australian Pavilion a family of art works by Patricia Piccinini was created for the Venice Biennale.
\n\nPiccinini's exhibition, We Are Family, brought a fresh, personal perspective to some of the most difficult bio-ethical issues of our time: What is normal? What constitutes a human being? Where does one species end and the other begin? Are some lives worth more than others? What is a family?
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\n\nThe promise and the perils of our runaway scientific developments - cloning, genetic manipulation and animal-to-human organ transplants - are given form. Her work explores the changing relationship between what is considered natural and what is artificial, what is 'normal' and mutant.
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\n\nPiccinini's works embody our dreams of perfect children, of life disease-free, yet always articu-late the value of difference and uncertainty. They emerge from a deep personal understanding of the issues involved in medical intervention in human life.
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\n\nWe Are Family included:
\n\nTeam WAF (Precautions), helmets, each a strange mixture of mask, motorcycle helmet and prosthetic device, hint at the radically different beings that populate the Pavilion;
\n\tGame Boys Advanced, young cloned twin boys, who on close inspection show signs of old age - grey hairs, age-spots and wrinkles;
\n\tThe Young Family, a trans-species mother with a litter of suckling pups;
\n\tLeather Landscape, a toddler clad in pink plays with some naked, unidentifiable animals on a leather form inspired by automotive design;
\n\tStill Life with Stem Cells, a young girl cares for a group of strange embryonic lumps with veined and hairy skin;
\n\tPlasmid Region, a video depicts an endless cycle of amorphously corporeal creation and growth.
\n\tPatricia Piccinini
\n\nWe Are Family
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\n\n50th Venice Biennale of Art
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\n\nJune - November 2003
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