One of a series of essays featuring the answers to questions posed to artists participating in the Megacities project of NGV Triennial 2023 In this third decade of the twenty-first…
Presented as part of the 2023 NGV Triennial, Megacities is an NGV-commissioned presentation that invited ten leading photographers to capture the urban environment of ten global megacities – cities with…
Artist Li Lihong shares insights into the relationship between tradition and modernity in contemporary Chinese art through his work in NGV Triennial.
In Lin Fanglu’s textile sculpture, She’s Four Seasons, 2023, the artist highlights the often overlooked and undervalued work of female artisans approaching traditional craftsmanship through a contemporary perspect
STATEMENT ‘As an immigrant in a Chinese city, I face the problem of ‘huk
A photograph can be grounded in the real world and record, document, and reflect the world around us.
Celebrating the new NGV publication Photography: Real and Imagined and the accompanying exhibition, NGV curators join guest authors to reflect on the complex, engaging and sometimes contradictory nature of all things photographi
Art Nouveau is a decorative style that thrived between 1890 and 1914 throughout Europe and the United States
PROJECT Song Wei’s Hamburger series juxtaposes tradition and modernisation in contemporary China. The hamburger is the visual image that Wei feels most accurately conveys his personal experiences and feeling
PROJECT What remains real once screen culture has infiltrated our memories? Raised in a rural village in Chongqing municipality, China, Tao Hui grew up watching television dramas from Taiwan and…
PROJECT Li Lihong’s artistic practice is a product of his generation’s social experiences and the clash between sophisticated Chinese art practices and present-day globalisation and mass product
PROJECT In her textile works, Lin Fanglu seeks to foreground the often overlooked work of female artisans by exploring traditional crafts through a contemporary lens.
PROJECT Kevin Abosch’s images of masses of protesters, police, fire and urban pressure speak to the global fragility of civic norms, the threat of autocracy – and the role of…
Three years of global turmoil have broken many of our underlying assumptions about the world.
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