The Woiwurrung word ‘TarraWarra’, of the Wurundjeri people indigenous to the Yarra Valley in which the art museum is situated, can roughly be translated to ‘slow moving waters,’. The TarraWarra Biennal 2021 honours its name by arriving a year later than initially intended due to the global coronavirus pandemic which incidentally has brought concepts of temporality, withdrawal, stillness, suspension and the elasticity of time, the subject matter of the biennale, to universal prominence.
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