This year, Kamilaroi/Bigambul artist Archie Moore made kith and kin for the Australia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale – and became the first Australian to win the Golden Lion award. Curated by Ellie Buttrose, Moore’s vast black-and-white installation took the form of a genealogical chart that wrapped around the walls and ceiling of the cavernous space, highlighting 65,000 years of human history and interconnectedness. In the centre of the pavilion was a raised tablelike platform, set above a dark pool of water, on top of which were placed 500 document-stacks largely consisting of partially redacted coroners’ inquests relating to Indigenous Australians who had died while held in police custody. Moore’s work combines the personal with the political, and this global art event in Italy was used by the artist to bring visibility to the violence and injustices perpetrated by carceral systems in his country, and around the world, that disproportionately target Indigenous people and people of colour. It was announced in August that kith and kin has been jointly acquired by Brisbane’s Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art and London’s Tate Modern.