When
30 Nov 2024 – 27 Apr 2025
Where
Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Children's Art Centre, Gallery 1 & 2, Gallery 1.1 (The Fairfax Gallery), Gallery 1.2, Gallery 1.3 (Eric and Marion Taylor Gallery), Gallery 1.4, Gallery 2.1, Gallery 3 (Kenneth and Yasuko Myer Gallery), Galleries 3.3 & 3.4 (Marica Sourris and James C. Sourris AM Galleries), Gallery 3.5, Gallery 4, Gallery 5 (Henry and Amanda Bartlett Galleries), Media Lounge & Watermall
Seventy artists, collectives and projects from more than 30 countries feature in the eleventh chapter of the flagship Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) exhibition series, the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art.
Bringing compelling new art to Brisbane, the Triennial is a gateway to the rapidly evolving artistic expression of Australia, Asia and the Pacific. Alongside artists and makers whose work has not been previously seen in Australia are a raft of new co-curated projects investigating artforms and cultural contexts rarely encountered outside their home localities.
For the first time this Triennial includes creators from Saudi Arabia, Timor-Leste and Uzbekistan, while First Nations, minority and diaspora cultures hold a central place, as do the collective, performative and community-driven modes of artmaking that thrive in the region. Through nuanced approaches to storytelling, materials and technique the exhibition explores themes that resonate across these cultural landscapes, such as how we care for the natural and urban environments, protect and revive cultural heritage, and how histories of migration and labour shape experience today.
As always, the Triennial is conceived and shaped from the ground up by expert hands. Artists, curators, interlocutors, cultural allies and partners have meaningfully woven the region’s creative stories into an exhibition that will inspire, uplift and move you.
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About Echo by Lê Thúy
Lê Thuý is a skilled practitioner of the traditional Vietnamese arts of silk and lacquer painting, highlighting their beauty and their cultural and religious value, while subtly commenting on contemporary issues. Echo 2024 evokes a ruined house and includes a group of nine doors from a traditional house in the historical town of Hội An. Painted in red and gold, their delicate imagery references her knowledge of botany, history, memento mori traditions and pan-Asian religions. Her symbolic trees and plants have specific meanings, from those used in medicine or poisons to those embodying prosperity and beauty (the peony) or high moral character (bamboo). Translucent suspended silk paintings complete the installation, depicting interiors with family shrines, memorabilia and architectural embellishments, capturing the moral values and aspirations of former occupants. Echo alludes to the loss of cultural heritage in a society motivated only by economic prosperity and self-interest.
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