Raquel Ormella Wild Rivers: Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney

Raquel Ormella is an installation artist working at the intersections of art and activism. She investigates the means by which critical thought in contemporary art might encourage a process of self-examination regarding political consciousness and social action. She questions the role of the artist in political movements, while at the same time exploring those relations practically in her life. For the Biennale, Ormella develops the use of office equipment bt creating an installation of electronic whiteboards, Wild Rivers: Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney (2008), in which she examines the current Wilderness Society Campaign Centers connected to the Wild Rivers Campaign in North Queensland. The Wild Rivers Campaign is an ongoing, complex, multilayered campaign that seeks to protect Australia's rivers. This is attempted in many ways, including (and in some cases unsuccessfully) forming ties with local Indigenous communities.

2008 Biennale of Sydney Guide, p. 69.