The Hand, The Eye and The Heart

The works featured in this exhibition reflect on the public dimension of private experience, surveying a range of approaches used by artists to record private and personal aspects of human experience.
Sophie Dixon
December 27, 2011

Overview

There are quite a few big-name exhibitions on at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art over summer in celebration of GoMA’s fifth birthday. While you are there seeing Matisse and Yayoi Kusama, be sure not to miss the gem of an exhibition occurring in the Level 2 Media Gallery.

The exhibition includes works from all around the world, including Montien Boonma (Thailand), Harun Farocki (Czech Republic/Germany), Mona Hatoum (Lebanon/England), Mathew Jones (Australia), Rei Naito (Japan/USA), Christodoulos Panayiotou (Republic of Cyprus), Michael Parekowhai (New Zealand), Natee Utarit (Thailand), Liu Wei (China), Nawurapu Wunungmurra (Dhalwangu people, Australia), William Yang (Australia), Yang Zhenzhong (China), Yao Jui-Chung (Taiwan).

The video, photography, drawing and sculpture works featured in The Hand, The Eye and The Heart reflect on the public dimension of private experience, surveying a range of approaches used by artists to record private and personal aspects of human experience.

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