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 Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina