Life is in constant flux. Impossible Bodies depicts a series of changes internally and externally. Some happen as evolution and a need to adapt, and some occur abruptly through loss and grief.
New flexibility is invented, and bodies transform into Impossible bodies—like extreme acrobats performing in a void scene.
Anador Walsh reviews Ivan Cheng’s performance exhibition NP at Monash University Museum of Art—a three-day project, made in collaboration with a group of Year 11 students, that explores the loss of childhood innocence and role of documentation in performance.
Even though women currently outnumber men in the arts by two-to-one, the industry remains rife with gender disparities from income to accommodating motherhood. So why, asks Neha Kale, is the growing visibility of female-identifying artists falling short of genuine, material change?
Melbourne Art Fair has announced its 2025 line up, with 60 galleries and Indigenous art centres slated to feature alongside some major international commissions and public programs.
With the likes of Björk and Beyonce wearing her creations, within Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen’s surreal garments—which are showing at QAGOMA—couture becomes a canvas for the phenomena of nature.
Four Aboriginal women artists are arming themselves with culture and art, showing us the power of matriarchal bonds and sisterhood, in These Arms Hold at Incinerator Gallery.
Stepping into Sarah Contos’s sprawling home studio in Kyle Bay, in southern Sydney, feels like a step inside the artist’s inventive and inquisitive brain—apt given that Contos’s upcoming show at UNSW Galleries, Eye Lash Horizon, explores aspects of what makes us human.
