Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore will represent Australia at the 60th Venice Biennale. kith and kin is the just-announced title of his presentation, promised to be an immersive installation and only the second solo exhibition from a First Nations artist at the event. 

 “The phrase ‘kith and kin’ simply means friends and family, but an earlier Old English definition for Kith dates from the 1300s and originally meant ‘countrymen’,” Moore says. On the international stage of the Biennale, this prompt opens wide to encompass more than 65,000 years of First Nations connections to the land now known as Australia, and probes what it means to share land in present day settler-colonies.