In this final edition of NGV Magazine for 2022, we feature Hangzhou-born, Australian-based artist Xiao Lu and new essays highlighting the new exhibition China – the Past is Present, explore unknown futures with finalists from the Rigg Design Prize 2022 and feature Richard Mosse’s new moving image work, Broken Spectre on display at NGV International.

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Nadia Hernández

Watch Nadia Hernández, whose bright, emotive works explore relationships and thecotidianidad (everydayness) talk about her practice and messages of familial love.

The NGV & MECCA Holiday Collaboration is on display at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia until February 2023.

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In Response: Hear Professor Nikos Papastergiadis share his own story of the Parthenon

Dr Luise Guest reads from her essay Becoming one: Xiao Lu's dialogues of ink and water

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