Projects

Drawing from a lifetime of complex entanglements with the physical and emotional legacies of the Vietnam War, Pipo Nguyen-duy’s photography is influenced by traditional landscape painting and theatrical composition.

Heri Dono’s paintings and installations merge imagination and Indonesian folk traditions with politics and modern art.

Collecting and repurposing found objects, Nari Ward grapples with social and political issues surrounding race, poverty and consumer culture via metaphor and juxtaposition.

Flavia Gandolfo’s work investigates how the visual conventions and material cultures of nationalism institutionalise state identities.

Kahurangiariki Smith’s art addresses the history of colonisation, the reclamation of Indigenous knowledge and the present-day, lived consequences of historical events in New Zealand.

Emphasising Arab heritage and identity, Abdulrahim Salem’s practice grapples with elements of magic, mysticism and folk traditions.

Over the course of more than four decades, artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has pioneered a form of visual expression that is profoundly political in aesthetic, subject and form.

Over nearly six decades, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian fashioned luminous abstract sculptures and drawings out of glass, mosaic, paper and fabric.