Ocula Magazine
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Maria Madeira: ‘I always thought of a better world’
For the inaugural Timor-Leste pavilion at Venice, Maria Madeira uncovers some of Timor’s painful histories to platform the resilience of its women.
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Must-See Exhibitions During Sydney Contemporary and Beyond
Expect: theatrical images that complicate Paul Gauguin’s interpretations of the Pacific and its peoples with a contemporary imaging of cultural awareness and inclusive difference.
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Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp
Sāmoan-Japanese interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara is immeasurably creative and unassailable in addressing some of the most urgent issues of the times—the environmental crisis…
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Hetti Perkins Introduces the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial
In August 2020, Australian writer and curator Hetti Perkins was appointed as the curator of the 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial: Ceremony (26 March–31 July 2022).
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Maree Clarke Connects Country, Culture, and Place
Maree Clarke’s poetic, personal, and political practice is a type of cultural truth-telling, steeped in memory and Country while deploying photography and new technologies to tell stories of past, present and future.
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Ishiuchi Miyako: Photography as Psychological Event
On 8 December 2019, curators Natalie King and Yuri Yamada travelled to the outskirts of Tokyo by train to visit renowned Japanese artist Ishuichi Miyako in her home studio in…
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Nell: ‘I’m always thinking about how a painting might sound’
Sydney-based artist Nell has a capacious practice, working deftly across sculpture, painting, sound, assemblage, performance, and public art, producing work that is both accessible yet complex.
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TarraWarra International 2019: Tracing Tangible Shadows
This haunting voiceover from Hiwa K’s video, Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue) (2017), follows the artist retracing a journey that he made when he was 25 years old…
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4th Kochi-Muziris Biennale: Possibilities for a Non-Alienated Life
‘Poems are like sentences that have taken their clothes off.’ Marlene Dumas’ poetic and sensual refrain accompanies her figurative watercolours
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11th Taipei Biennial: ‘creativity and crises’
Stealthily installed in the basement of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum as part of Post Nature—A Museum as an Ecosystem, the 11th Taipei Biennial co-curated by Mali Wu and Francesco Manacorda…
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Patricia Piccinini in Conversation | Ocula
On the occasion of Patricia Piccinini’s multisensory and epic retrospective, Curious Affection at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA, 24 March–5 August 2018)…
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Pipilotti Rist in Conversation
Pipilotti Rist configures sensory and colour-saturated universes that transport the viewer into hyper-visual sequences of moving image, film and objects.
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Ocula Conversations Series
Ocula Magazine is pleased to partner with the 21st Biennale of Sydney to release a series of Ocula Conversations with seven artists, one from each of the Biennale locations.
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Tracey Moffatt in Conversation
Since graduating from Queensland College of Art in 1982 and following her first solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, in 1989, Tracey Moffatt…
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Maria Alyokhina in Conversation
Formed in 2011, Russian protest art collective Pussy Riot is known for organising unauthorised and provocative guerrilla punk rock performances in unconventional…
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Entang Wiharso and Sally Smart in Conversation
On the 30 November 2015, an e-conversation commenced between Entang Wiharso in Yogyakarta; Sally Smart in Yogyakarta and her studio in Melbourne, and Natalie King…
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Natalie King and Youngmi Park in Conversation
Now in its 13th edition, the Dong Gang International Photo Festival takes place in the city of Yeongwol, about 3 hours drive east of Seoul.