Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori began painting in 2005. She was about eighty. In just a few short years of a rare creative intensity — until she passed in 2015 — she produced a unique, vibrantly colorful body of work, comprising over 2,000 paintings, with no apparent ties to other aesthetic currents, particularly within Australia’s contemporary Aboriginal art. As one of the few Kaiadilt people who could still speak Kayardild, painting gave Gabori a powerful way to express herself. She painted to record and pass on her knowledge of traditional legends and history, celebrating the landscapes of her ancestral land from which she and other members of the Kaiadilt community had long been exiled. The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (@fondationcartier) in Paris is currently presenting the first major solo survey exhibition of the Aboriginal artist outside Australia, bringing together some thirty monumental paintings. The show is organized in close collaboration with the artist’s family and the Kaiadilt community, alongside the foremost specialists in Kaiadilt art and culture. It’s on view until November 6, 2022, so be sure to get your tickets if you’re around. Our Art Director Celia Spenard-Ko (@ceeesk) recently saw the exhibition and cannot recommend it highly enough.