“They stole my face,” shouts a ten-year-old boy into a microphone, before stomping away. We are in the Rafael Lozano-Hemmer exhibition Atmospheric Memory at the Powerhouse in Sydney. The boy’s photograph was taken as soon as he entered the exhibition and then publicly projected onto his shadow.
Justine Youssef’s art confronts histories of displacement, genocide and colonialism, alongside preserving the traditions of her Lebanese heritage—as her latest solo at UTS Gallery & Art Collection attests.
For Zoe Leonard, photography is not just about using a camera. Photography is also about a way of thinking, seeing and interacting. This focus continues in her recent series Al río/To the River at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
At the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona), two international artists—Jónsi of Sigur Rós and Jean-Luc Moulène—are each centering the sensory experiences of nature, from local materials to volcanic eruption.
From coastal Shark Bay to the dusty goldfields region of Leonora, Patrick Brown explores the complexity of landscapes for his new exhibition at Art Collective WA.
Through her poetically constructed images, Hoda Afshar illuminates a world overshadowed by history and atrocity. Yet we never see despair: we see defiance, comradeship, reinvention and a search for how photography can activate new ways of thinking.
Hiromi Tango is creating aesthetic pathways through trauma and illness, particularly long Covid, using her signature rainbow palette to centre gentleness, compassion and hope at Brisbane Festival.
Artist and poet Chunxiao Qu bends common language into absurd, funny and meaningful forms that are as forthright as the glow of her neon lights—as seen in her latest show at FUTURES Gallery.
Celebrating artist collectives through seven exhibitions across Melbourne and Kyneton, the new Collective Polyphony Festival is founded on the notion of artists supporting artists.
One of Australia’s biggest art fairs is back at Carriageworks, with over 96 booths and 500 artists. Our Art Guide editors have curated their top picks at Sydney Contemporary, spanning intimate still life paintings, cats draped over shoulders and emerging artists.
Spanning over 30 art centres, 1,221 million square kilometres, and 16 languages, Desert Mob is a joyful gathering that celebrates community and Country, from food to fashion to sovereignty.
Moving to New York in 1969, Virginia Cuppaidge is known for her internationally revered abstract paintings. She’s now living in Australia, unveiling a carefully restored, utterly luminous, six-metre work at this week’s Sydney Contemporary.
