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APT10: Artists and projects

'The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art'

A bright and colourful collage comprising neon corals and geometric shapes on a background that uses optical illusion to seem to recede a long way.
Thasnai Sethaseree / Thailand b.1968 / It's unclearly clear, as yet incomplete 2017-21 / Paper collage, Buddhist monk robes, urethane, metal / Triptych: 400 x 800cm (each panel); each panel comprised of four parts: 200 x 400cm (each) / Commissioned for APT10. Purchased 2021 with funds from Metamorphic Foundation through the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: QAGOMA / © Thasnai Sethaseree

 

This Digital Story is a permanent archive of artist and project profiles from 'The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art' (APT10), a free exhibition that ran at QAGOMA from 04 December 2021 to 25 April 2022. 

For its landmark tenth iteration, APT10 included 69 projects with new and recent work by emerging and established artists and collectives, together comprising more than 150 individuals from 30 countries. Developed by QAGOMA curators working in collaboration with a network of artists across Australia and the Asia Pacific region, the exhibition included works of art that are by turns highly personal, deeply political, and full of joy.

 

 

Three graduate students wearing mortarboards sit reading blood-splattered newspapers in a cemetery in Myanmar.

3AM
Three printed letters are installed in a shelving unit.

Bani Abidi
A mural depicting palms and a small aeroplane on the side of a building.

Air Canoe
An installation view of six sculptures in the shape of swimming pools, cast in blue-painted plaster.

Nazgol Ansarinia
A painting depicting a woman in a black-and-red dress looking at a tattoo on the hip of a bearded man wearing striped pants.

Maryam Ayeen and Abbas Shahsavar
Colourful mats by the Bajau Sama Dilaut Weavers hang on the back wall of a gallery, with a kinetic sculpture in the foreground.

Bajau Sama Dilaut Weavers
An architectural sculpture made of concrete, with a red 'wall' with engraved windows rising out of grey concrete foundations.

Rathin Barman
A group of people stand in a circle in a gallery conservation space.

ACAPA Pasifika Community Engagement Project (ACE)
A work made of gauzy ribbons of fabric in soft blues and pinks.

Between Earth and Sky
An artwork made to look like a document, made out of tape on canvas. It reads 'Exchange for the sum of ONE RUPEE Keeling Cocos Islands Currency'.

Chong Kim Chiew
Six laser-engraved acrylic sculptures.

Genevieve Chua
A photograph of five very large fibreglass water vessels installed on Level One at GOMA.

Alia Farid
A man dressed in white dances with his hands in the air in front of a sign that warns 'no entry' due to dust.

Brian Fuata
A still photograph of a young woman in a t-shirt playing a bugel.

Hikaru Fujii
Four earthenware works, including three small figures and one large round pot with a face design applied.

Joyce Mary Arasepa Gole OL (Mary Gole)
An embroidered work depicting a house and garden in soft, warm colours.

Jamilah Haji
A photo of two men seated under a spotlight in front of a cinema screen

Hao Jingban
A very dark grey painting depicting a hilly desert landscape, leafless trees and a body of water.

Hao Liang
A long landscape-oriented painting depicting the Rainbow Serpent, a colourful rendering of the state of Queensland renamed 'Murriland', and imagery depicting the invasion and colonisation of Australia.

Gordon Hookey
A collage of photographs of elephants walking through water, with a backdrop of a Google Image Search for 'elephants'.

Chia-Wei Hsu
Small piles of black pigment on a fabric surface, with small pots in the background.

Hu Yun
A painting of an aeroplane flaying over small islands. The heads of people can be seen through the plane windows.

Jumaadi
A small island set in a misty body of water.

Kā Paroro o Haumumu

A tall kinetic dhari sculpture casts shadows onto the ceiling and reflected floor of a gallery space.

Grace Lillian Lee and Ken Thaiday Snr
An installation view of a large artwork presented on a folding altarpiece.

Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho
A still photograph of a busy city street at night, with a truck driving directly towards the camera.

Minouk Lim
A collage with neon yellow and pink-shaded people on a geometric yellow, red and purple background.

Phuong Ngo
A close-up photograph of many colourful, crushed soda cans in an iron trashcan. (These realistic cans are in fact ceramic, made by Kimiyo Mishima.)

Kimiyo Mishima
An enormous woman's head floats over a swimming pool. She has glossy, wet skin and long hair and looks towards the pool.

Nguyên Phuong Linh
An ink and watercolour portrait of a person wearing a pink floral robe. A red dragon is depicted in the background.

Nguyễn Thi Châu Giang
A line drawing of a building with scaffolding.

Jasmine Nilani Joseph
Two people stand looking at and through Shannon Novak's transparent vinyl window installation, with many colours casting rainbows on the floor of the river room.

Shannon Novak
Two long lacquered plaques, vertically oriented.

Phi Phi Oanh
Tall mural of a woman walking through water while holding a child, painted on the side of a building. A crowd of people below looks up.

Archie Oclos
A work on copper depicting silhouettes of people emerging from bamboo shoots.

Lee Paje
Electronic components are set amongst tea seedlings in a close-up of an installation.

Bagus Pandega
An abstract artwork installed on the walls of a foyer, with a stairway at left.

Christina Pataialii
An acrylic, ink and digital print of a map, featuring people in battle uniform.

Pala Pothupitiye
A photo of tree branches lit up against a blue, cloudy evening sky.

Shubigi Rao
A work of abstract art on a gallery wall featuring colours that gradate from pinks and beiges at left to yellow, red and blue at right.

Syagini Ratna Wulan
A variety of glass and cork vessels in abstract shapes stand against a white background.

Koji Ryui
A photo of a person dressed in a white robe and head covering standing elbows deep in water inside a flooded building. They face away from the camera.

Tita Salina and Irwan Ahmett
A colourful collage featuring abstract faces and figures.

Seleka International Art Society Initiative
A bright and colourful collage comprising neon corals and geometric shapes on a background that uses optical illusion to seem to recede a long way.

Thasnai Sethaseree
Women in brightly coloured clothes gather around large pots they have made, suspended from brightly coloured woven ropes.

Kamruzzaman Shadhin and Gidree Bawlee
A painting of a man in a white jacket and white hat with a plume holding his hand up in the air, with a mountain village in the background.

Karan Shrestha
Architectural features like windows and stairs woven into lace tableaux, suspended in a gallery.

Sumakshi Singh
Pieces of bamboo slipcast in stone installed on a gallery wall.

Yasmin Smith
Four gold-and-white ceramic figures against a white background: an owl, a person standing atop a cat, and two figures with birds on their shoulders.

Vipoo Srivilasa
A landscape painted on a butcher's knife.

Adeela Suleman
A black-and-white photo of people sitting and lying on the ground.

Som Supaparinya
A man wearing a sunflower masks plays music amongst ruins.

Svay Sareth
A gilded painting of a man kneeling in a garden reading.

Amin Taasha
An artist's render of a fale boat floating on water. The artist is superimposed onto the fale; she is barbecuing.

Salote Tawale
A black-and-white photograph of a tree taken in motion.

Shannon Te Ao
A painting of repeated lotus flower forms on an aqua-blue background.

Than Sok
A person with short hair and wearing futuristic clothes faces away from the camera and points towards a lake.

Subash Thebe Limbu
A photograph taken inside a traditional Japanese home.

Michiko Tsuda
A model wears a robe made of coconut fibres.

Lesieli Tupou and Sione Maileseni
Installation review of masks from Gaulim and Wunga villages in Papua New Guinea.

Uramat Mugas (Uramat story songs)
A painting of plants and animals representing the creation of the world, rendered in natural pigments on cloth.

Mayur and Tushar Vayeda
Three women on a balcony hold a mat over the side; the mat is woven with text in block letters.

Yee I-Lann
Installation view of the APT10 Yolngu/Macassan Project, Gallery 4, QAG / Photograph: Natasha Harth

Yolngu/Macassan Project
A figure rendered in cement, missing a head, arms and feet, positioned as if about to lie down or stand up.

Yu Ji


Explore APT10

 

A close-up of Shannon Novak's transparent vinyl window installation, with many colours casting rainbows on the floor of the river room.

APT10: VIDEO
A person with short hair and wearing futuristic clothes faces away from the camera and points towards a lake.

ESSAY: Navigating new futures
An etching of the ocean into a shiny metal surface -- a detailed view of a larger artwork.

Djirrit: A Macassan sail dhawu

THE 10TH ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL (APT10)

Explore the story

A person with short hair and wearing futuristic clothes faces away from the camera and points towards a lake.

ESSAY: Navigating new futures
A close-up of Shannon Novak's transparent vinyl window installation, with many colours casting rainbows on the floor of the river room.

APT10: VIDEO
An etching of the ocean into a shiny metal surface -- a detailed view of a larger artwork.

Djirrit: A Macassan sail dhawu

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An exhibition archive of artist and project profiles from APT10 (Dec 2021 – Apr 2022).