One of the more confronting illuminations amongst all the sparkling lights of Enlighten is Indigenous artist Tony Albert’s I Am Visible at the National Gallery of Australia.

Projected across the 50m-high facade are images of young Aboriginal men, shown with targets on their chest, intertwined with musical lyrics and words from Indigenous languages.

Tony Albert's I Am Visible is showing at the National Gallery of Australia as part of the Enlighten Festival.

“As confronting as the images are, there's a lot of optimism in the face of adversity,” Albert said.

“When you look at the way in which these young boys are represented through the media, through context which is not always positive, how do we wear that target on our chest, how do we live our lives with that target?