Highlights from a first pass through. As a wide-ranging celebration of contemporary art focused on established and well-known artists - international and Australian - there was plenty to enjoy. It didn't seem as densely teeming, nor to have any with the same wow factor, as elements of the previous one in 2018, which would be understandable if true given the circumstances, but might also reflect that we only made it through the southern section of the ground floor and most of the pieces interspersed among the collection on levels 1 and 2 (and along the ramp).
Sarah Waiswa - "Seeking to belong" (2016), from a series of a an albino woman photographed in the Kibera slums in Kenya
Alicja Kwade - "WeltenLinie" (2020), a disorienting and at the same time aesthetically engaging walk-through experience which messed around with my perceptions as much as it did everyone else's in terms of uncertainty about which were empty spaces and which mirrored
Lee Ufan - "Dialogue" (2017), a series of individual marks combined to appear like a single brushstroke (previously)
Cerith Wyn Evans - "C = O = D = A" (2019-20)
Angela Tiatia - "Narcissus", 2019, in which "Behind the kneeling self-absorbed figure of Narcissus, which specifically references Caravaggio's Narcissus, 1597-99, a cast of forty Narcissi performs acts of self-worship, ritual, joy, love, lust, complacency, despair and disregard" in an era of social media - made me think of a more overtly contemporary (albeit with much older reference points) Alex Prager(w/ Hayley)
