Category: QAGOMA

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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Charles Blackman’s ‘The Blue Alice’

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   7 Jan 2016

In 1956, Barbara Blackman brought home a talking book machine and one of the first books the Blackmans ‘read’ was Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This was Charles Blackman’s first encounter with the story and, importantly, it lacked any illustrations to impose on his imagination. Barbara came to stand for Alice herself. Her struggle…

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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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Rosanna Raymond introduces the SaVAge K’lub project

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   5 Jan 2016

Rosanna Raymond’s SaVAge K’lub project is an installation space that is activated by various K’lub members over the course of the ‘The 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT8) exhibition. The project’s title refers to a historical gentlemen’s club first established in London in the nineteenth century. Watch | Rosanna Raymond’s SaVAge K’lub Raymond’s…

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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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Vale: Judy Cassab

Posted by QAGOMA   ●   23 Dec 2015

The Gallery acknowledges the recent passing of Judy Cassab (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), one of Australia’s much loved and respected artists and best known for being the first woman to twice win the prestigious Archibald portrait prize. Judy Cassab was born in 1920 in Vienna of Hungarian parents. She studied in Budapest…

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