Institute of Modern Art

9 Hannah Brontë Umma’s Tongue – molten at 6000˚ Hannah Brontë’ s recent video work Umma’s Tongue–molten at 6000° pairs the female black body with panoramic images of mining and natural destruction. As the artist describes it: “If mother earth were a rapper then this is her new music video”. The word umma , or mother, repeated by a cast of Indigenous female rappers conjures the matriarchal figure of nature in resistance to a dystopian landscape of human industry. Entwining the women’s words with Mother Nature’s tongue, Brontë voices her warning— “don’t make umma have to clap back”. 13 JANUARY–10 MARCH