‘In her video installation “The Australian Ugliness” (2018), presented at “The National 2019: New Australian Art”, Eugenia Lim contemporises the influential book of the same name, first published in 1960.’ —MCA

With its last days of exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, I wanted to share some of Eugenia’s eloquence — which forms a meaty context for her major video installation work, THE AUSTRALIAN UGLINESS.