Category: Exhibition

APT8 Artist Interview: Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   11 Jan 2016

Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh are brothers who collaborate with Hesam Rahmanian to construct provocative installations that challenge conventional modes of display and standards of value. Persian street-theatre or Ta’ziyeh is a particularly important influence on their practice, with its use of props, theatricality, cross-dressing and irony. In the their installation ‘All The Rivers Run Into The Sea. Over.’ / ‘Copy. Yet, The Sea Is Not Full.…

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Asim Waqif: ‘All we leave behind are the memories’

Posted by Kate Bell   ●   6 Jan 2016

Through his art practice, Asim Waqif explores the reuse of recycled materials that are often discarded by the ‘development’ of the city into a public space. It is this throwaway society that is represented in his perspective and also in his APT8 installation, All we leave behind are the memories 2015, a sprawling timber installation across…

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Nge Lay: The sick classroom

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   28 Dec 2015

Nge Lay’s large-scale installation The sick classroom 2013 developed from years of research and regular visits to Thuye’dan village, a rural area ten hours north of Yangon. With her husband, artist Aung Ko, Nge Lay established the Thuye’dan Village Art Project in 2007. The project seeks to engage and share contemporary art with the villagers,…

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APT8: Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra

Posted by Kyla McFarlane   ●   8 Dec 2015

In the past two-and-a-half years, Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra have collaborated on performances and video, as well as club-based event production under the moniker of ‘Club Ate’, working with queer people of colour. Justin Shoulder and Bhenji Ra are collaborators from Sydney, brought together by a shared cultural lineage within Australia’s Filipino diaspora. Shoulder…

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APT8 Highlight: Maria Taniguchi

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   2 Dec 2015

Maria Taniguchi, the winner of this year’s Hugo Boss Asia Art Award is best known for her ongoing series of large ‘brick’ paintings in which she arranges a consistent grid pattern into different surface configurations. Taniguchi emphasises the performative nature of these paintings, the way in which she first draws out a grid on the canvas…

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