Majority Rule

Majority Rule by Michael Cook asks the viewer to speculate about an Australia where Aboriginal people are the majority. 

Touching on the discriminatory nature of society, Cook multiplies the same Indigenous man in each image to paint a picture of a societal structure reversed. The numerous versions of the Aboriginal subject populate generic city locations: a train station tunnel, a vintage bus, iconic monuments and various city streets. Cook’s imagery challenges our ingrained belief systems, yet they do not offer judgment – they are observational, asking questions without proffering any neat prescriptive conclusions.