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Biography

Pilar Mata Dupont is a highly-acclaimed Western Australian artist, who works across film, photography, spectacle, performance, and design investigating ideas of nationalism, identity, and the triggers of nostalgia. She works in a highly recognised collaboration with Tarryn Gill and additionally works in partnership with Thea Costantino and Gill as multi-artform collective Hold Your Horses. In recent years Mata Dupont has traveled extensively, researching and/or producing solo works in Finland, North and South Korea, Argentina, Germany, Austria, and the UK.