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Tacita Dean + Hydraulic Press Girl + conflict avocados

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Smac McCreanor (Courtesy the artist); Tacita Dean, The Wreck of Hope (2022); Fernando Laposse (supplied).

Tacita Dean is one of the UK's most acclaimed artists, best known for working with 16mm analogue film. Daniel speaks with her about recent work on important living artists, and her huge, mesmerising chalk drawings, from her exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.

My Thing is... getting squished. Actor and choreographer Smac McCreanor went viral for her Hydraulic Press Girl videos, imitating household objects getting crushed by a hydraulic press.  Now she's in the art gallery -- featuring in the National Gallery of Victoria's Triennial.

In parts of Mexico, a high price is being paid for the world's insatiable appetite for avocados. Artist Fernando Leposse investigates the ecological and social costs of the industry in his art project Conflict Avocados.

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Visual Art, Contemporary Art, Dance
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