Asylum seeker tragedy prompts Biennale installation

Alex Seton’s moving marble lifejackets will call viewers to confront their own humanity.
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Seton’s My Concerns will Outlive Yours (2011). Photo by Per Ericson 

‘Whenever I would come across the debate around asylum seekers in the mainstream press, in political debate or around a dinner table, the one thought kept reasserting itself in the back of my mind was, “someone died trying to have a life like mine.”’  

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina