Ngura Wiru Mulapa - Very Beautiful Country
Betty Chimney , Betty King , Emily Cullinan , Eric (Mungi) Barney , Julie Yatjitja , Maringka Burton , Nellie Ngampa Coulthard , Rene Sundown , Rosalind Tjanyari , Sallyanne Roberts , Trisha Singer , Yatjiki Cullinan
The exhibition "Ngura Wiru Mulapa - Very Beautiful Country" at Aboriginal Signature Estrangin Gallery in Brussels presents works from Iwantja Arts, a community-run art center in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY Lands). The exhibition explores the concept of "Ngura Wiru Mulapa," which translates to "very beautiful country." This term signifies not a visual aesthetic, but a state of relational integrity within a living territory, activated by ancestral narratives (Tjukurpa), social responsibilities, and lived experience. The artworks are understood as manifestations of this country, functioning as modes of knowledge transmission and spatial articulation, maintaining connections between people, places, and ancestral stories.
The paintings by artists such as Rosalind Tjanyari, Betty Chimney, Rene Sundown, Emily Cullinan, Maringka Burton, Sallyanne Roberts, and Nellie Ngampa Coulthard are not mere representations but are deeply embedded in specific sites, cultural protocols, and embodied knowledge. They convey complex visual languages that map relational systems, ecological rhythms, and ancestral journeys. The exhibition challenges Western distinctions between abstraction and figuration, art and knowledge, proposing a model where painting is inseparable from territory, law, and life. Beauty, in this context, is understood as a relational condition that emerges from the maintenance of these interconnected links.
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