Kindred 2018
An orangutan-like mother gently holds her two babies. Forms are fluid here, as Piccinini probes the boundaries demarking artificial from natural, human from the posthuman. She leaves us with no easy answers, suggesting the borders are unstable, mutable and in flux. Viewed from the gallery level above, these figures are surrounded by 3000 biomorphic blooms from the work The Meadow 2015.
Born in Sierra Leone, but having lived most of her life in Melbourne, artist Patricia Piccinini is holding her largest ever solo exhibition in Brisbane's QAGOMA. No stranger to successful showings; she represented Australia at the 2003 Venice Biennale and drew 1.4 million viewers to a Brazilian exhibition.
Piccinini draws on the natural world, science, medicine and technology for her transgenic, hyper-realistic creations. Her Brisbane collection, entitled 'Curious Affection' focuses on family, motherhood and nurturing. Her subjects evoke a broad range of reactions and emotions - sometimes shocking and confronting , but just as often endearing.
Kindred 2018
An orangutan-like mother gently holds her two babies. Forms are fluid here, as Piccinini probes the boundaries demarking artificial from natural, human from the posthuman. She leaves us with no easy answers, suggesting the borders are unstable, mutable and in flux. Viewed from the gallery level above, these figures are surrounded by 3000 biomorphic blooms from the work The Meadow 2015.
Born in Sierra Leone, but having lived most of her life in Melbourne, artist Patricia Piccinini is holding her largest ever solo exhibition in Brisbane's QAGOMA. No stranger to successful showings; she represented Australia at the 2003 Venice Biennale and drew 1.4 million viewers to a Brazilian exhibition.
Piccinini draws on the natural world, science, medicine and technology for her transgenic, hyper-realistic creations. Her Brisbane collection, entitled 'Curious Affection' focuses on family, motherhood and nurturing. Her subjects evoke a broad range of reactions and emotions - sometimes shocking and confronting , but just as often endearing.