The current exhibitions Taring Padi: Tanah Tumpah Darah at Griffith University Art Museum (GUAM) in Brisbane and Voice Against Reason at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN) are among a long line of bilateral art exchanges between Australia and Indonesia that began with the first Asia Pacific Triennial in 1993. Aaron Seeto, outgoing Museum MACAN director and former Curatorial Manager of Asian and Pacific Art at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), speaks to this cross geographical and cultural communication by describing Voice Against Reason as, ‘…more than just an exhibition, but a dynamic engagement between artists, artworks and audiences’.
Forming amicable relations between adversarial nations through art
Australian and Indonesian artists traverse a political divide to find common ground and bring distinct ways of addressing shared concerns.
14 Mar 2024
![Jumaadi, ‘Malaikat [Angel I]’, 2019-. Acrylic on buffalo hide. Collection of the artist. Image: Supplied. A detailed work depicting two figures flying with white wings and meeting each other in the centre. They both have two eyes on the side of their heads. In the background is an irregular oval with a circle of trees inside and a white bird on the bottom right corner.](https://www.artshub.com.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/03/Malaikat-I-Angel-I-2019-sm-e1710377627604.jpg?w=1024)
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