Art that is atmospheric/ Asia Pacific TriennialFor the Asia Pacific Triennial, Szelit Cheung presents his paintings in a specially designed space whose ambiance and light-fall match those depicted on his canvases.. The deeply atmospheric oil paintings of Cheung are painstaking studies of the fall of light in space. Intimate in scale and tightly framed, Cheung’s canvases depict unadorned architectural interiors glancingly illuminated by beams of sunlight. Using restricted palettes domin...
The imaginings of our future/ Asia Pacific Triennial KidsThomas Renn is QAGOMA's Motion Designer and the animator behind Asia Pacific Triennial artist Rithika Merchant’s incredible interactive experience 'If the Seeds Chose Where to Grow' 2024 at the Children’s Art Centre, Gallery of Modern Art. Discover how Thomas brings Rithika's imaginative world to life. During Asia Pacific Triennial Kids, Rithika Merchant invites children to envision a new world. The project builds on the idea ...
Film In Conversation/ Tsai Ming-liangAs part of Asia Pacific Triennial Cinema, Taiwan-based Malaysian filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang joined us for an Australian-exclusive in-person In Conversation event. Celebrated as one of the greatest living directors and a key figure in the second wave of Taiwan New Cinema, Tsai has re-shaped understandings of the artform through his feature films (including the Golden Lion-winning 'Vive L’Amour' 1994 and the ghostly masterpiece 'Goodbye, Dragon Inn' 20...
Film In Conversation/ Kamila AndiniIndonesian writer-director Kamila Andini talks about the characters she crafts in her films and the stories she is passionate to bring to the big screen. Kamila Andini’s films explore major sociocultural topics – such as gender equality and environmental issues – in a way that is fantastical, poetic and uniquely her own. Her stories draw from Indonesian art traditions including costume, dance and theatre regularly focussing on women navigating cul...