Water is one of our most precious resources, it’s the vital element that sustains all life on Earth. During ‘Water’ we explore its various forms — oceans, lakes, rivers, and rain — and aim to spark conversations about the environmental and social challenges we face today. To present this exhibition, QAGOMA has partnered with HSBC,…
We highlight five women artists who reflect on the cultural traditions of water, consider our reliance on water, and examine the environmental and social challenges faced by the world today. 1. Lorraine Connelly-Northey Lorraine Connelly-Northey descends from the Waradgerie [artist’s spelling] nation but grew up downstream of the Murray River in Swan Hill, on the…
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The small stream that weaves through a landscape of water-rounded stones in Olafur Eliasson’s commanding and interactive Riverbed 2014 offers audiences a chance to explore, play, and ponder its existence. This interior-environment is out of place, without vegetation, birds or other markers of time and place, is it the very first landscape on Earth, an…
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‘Please traverse the space using only the rings’, William Forsythe requests as we encounter his installation of suspended gymnastic rings, The Fact of Matter 2009. To do so, we must lift ourselves into the air by stepping onto one ring, then another. Although the lower rings are hanging at a suitable height for our feet,…
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Ghost net art — a movement that has swept through communities on the coastline of northern Australia since 2009 — has become an important way for artists to raise awareness of a seemingly insurmountable environmental problem: the abandoned fishing nets that cause immense devastation to ocean life and marine ecosystems. Lynnette Griffiths, Marion Gaemers, and…
The Gallery’s summer blockbuster explores water in all its states and across the globe. ‘Water’ highlights this precious resource and aims to spark conversations on the critical challenges of climate change, access to water and ecological fragility. One of the major installations in the exhibition is Danish–Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s Riverbed 2014. Here, we delve…
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