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To those heading to the Venice Biennale please take the time to check out the Australian Pavillion, where Archie Moore’s work is being presented, ‘𝐾𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐾𝑖𝑛’. Archie’s memorial installation comprises of a vast hand-drawn genealogical chart using fragile chalk, mapping his First Nations connections which span more than 2,400 generations and 65,000 years. Moments of erasure amidst the names represent the atrocities inflicted upon first nations communities, such as massacres, the introduction of diseases and destruction of knowledge, that have all produced intergenerational trauma. In using chalk - a symbol of educational material - he addresses the insufficient dissemination of First Nations histories. More than 500 document stacks containing mainly coronial inquests on the deaths of indigenous australians in police custody, dated in our lifetime. despite first nations australians being just 3.8% of australia’s population, they account for 33% of its prison population, making them among the most incarcerated people globally. Surrounded by the limitless family tree, viewers are reminded that the reports do not represent nameless statistics; rather, they are children, siblings, cousins, parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents and great-grandparents.