Pansy Napangardi, Snake Dreaming, 1996. Synthetic polymer on linen. Photo: Vincent Girier Dufournier. Courtesy: the estate of the artist and Fondation Opale, Lens.

Fondation Opale, located in Lens, Switzerland, presents the group exhibition HIGH FIVE! to celebrate its fifth anniversary.

The foundation has challenged 26 personalities from the world of Swiss culture – including artists, writers and collectors, as well as a neuroscientist and a watchmaker – to choose a work of contemporary Australian Indigenous art from Fondation Opale’s collections, by suggesting a “mirror work” that they own, that they have created or that the Foundation could borrow to kick off this singular project.

HIGH FIVE! features more than 60 Australian Indigenous and international works, ranging in size from a few centimetres to large-scale site-specific installations, in an original scenography designed by Pavillon Trois studio.

To complete this dialogue, Fondation Opale called on Daniel Browning, journalist and artist from the Bundjalung and Kullilli communities. The results of these colorful interviews are featured in an eponymous publication accompanying the exhibition.