The fibrous souls 2018–21 currently in the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall is constructed with 70 giant shikas — embroidered, reticulated bags typically made of jute strings that are tied to a beam in the ceiling of houses and used to hold pots and food containers — Shikas are found in almost every house in rural…
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A Diasporic Mythology 2021 is a kinetic and sound installation commissioned for ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10) and developed from Bagus Pandega’s interest in the historical narratives and circulation of instruments. The artist became fascinated with a particular koto instrument, named a Taishogoto, dating to the Taisho period (1912–26), that he…
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Throughout her career, Sumakshi Singh has developed a spontaneous and responsive approach to material and space. Her practice is characterised by rigorous explorations of spatial intervention that play in the gap between conditioned knowledge and direct perception, and in the spaces between physical object and illusory experience.1 Her works engage narratives from inner landscapes —…
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Philippines-based artist Lee Paje’s two oil on copper works — a triptych The stories that weren’t told 2019 and Somewhere, someday when we are the sea 2021, a suspended 12-panel polyptych — were commissioned for ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10). ARTWORK STORIES: Delve into QAGOMA’s Collection highlights for a rich exploration of…
Suspended over the Queensland Art Gallery Watermall, installation is underway during ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10) for one of the most ambitious contemporary works to emerge from Bangladesh — a collaborative installation by Kamruzzaman Shadhin and the Gidree Bawlee Foundation of Arts, made possible by Metamorphic Foundation. Over more than 20 years,…
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Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho have been collaborating for more than 12 years, their shared practice is oriented around intensive first-hand research into the impact of globalism, capital and development on specific small-scale communities. Since 2018, they have made a number of works based on the sugar plantations on the island of Negros in the…
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