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<p>Alphonse Mucha 'Reverie' 1898, colour lithograph, 72.7 x 55.2 cm © Mucha Trust 2024</p>

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<p>Serwah Attafuah, Between this World & the Next, 2023–24, installation view, 24th Biennale of Sydney: Ten Thousand Suns, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024 © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh</p>

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