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Conversatio: A Cabinet of Wonder 2018

Artwork Conversatio: A Cabinet of Wonder this artwork made of Photographs, wooden cabinet, metal, glass, sound, scent, patterned perspex, colony of bees, created in 2018-01-01
Accession No.
2019.114.001-003
Date Created
2018
Gallery location
Not on public display
Department
Pacific Art
Dimensions A
190 x 70 x 170cm (closed)
Media Category
Installation
Secondary Media Category
electronic media
Medium
Photographs, wooden cabinet, metal, glass, sound, scent, patterned perspex, colony of bees
Place Created
Wellington, New Zealand
Credit Line
Gift of the artist through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation 2019

Conversatio: A cabinet of wonder 2018 is a functioning beehive or ‘living photograph’, in which bees can be observed entering the Gallery before disappearing inside the cabinet and going about their normal activities. They are also visible when the cabinet is opened for a short period of time. Anne Noble’s works form a visual ode to an insect symbolic of our world’s wellbeing — their complex ecosystem is at severe risk of collapse as a direct result of human intervention in the environment.

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Exhibitions featuring this object

Zico Albaiquni / Indonesia b.1987 / When it shook, the earth stood still (After Pirous) (detail) 2018 / Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / Purchased 2018 with funds from Konfir Kabo through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / © Zico Albaiquini

‘The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial’

Nov 2018 - Apr 2019

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