This year’s TarraWarra Biennial, one of just a small handful of national surveys of contemporary Australian art, takes its title from the Woiwurrung word tarrawarra, meaning “slow moving waters.” The biennial’s curator, Nina Miall, consulted with senior Wurundjeri elder Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin AO to learn from the Birrarung (Yarra River) and embed its unhurried movements in the aesthetic foundation of her exhibition. Works by twenty-five artists variously embody or demonstrate acts of slowness, deceleration, delay, or the “decompression of time.” Jeremy Bakker’s overly literal though charming