The Hand, The Eye & The Heart
GOMA Opening Hours
10.00am — 5.00pm Monday to Friday
9.00am — 5.00pm Saturday and Sunday
Closed Christmas Day
9.00am — 5.00pm Public Holidays
‘The Hand, the Eye and the Heart’ brings together works that reflect on the public dimension of private experience. The exhibition includes video, photography, drawing and sculpture, surveying a range of approaches used by artists to record private and personal aspects of human experience and considering how these acts of remembrance are made material and spiritual.
Throughout the exhibition, the individual’s lived experience is given significance within broader cultural and historical narratives. Sites, practices and objects of historic memory are integral to this process, as are the roles they have in symbolising individual and collective expressions of faith, memorialisation and solitude; or reflecting ideas of enlightenment, mortality and the impermanence of memory itself. Some artists work as diarists, using aspects of autobiography in both spoken and written word, and documentary strategies to record events; while others use the anonymity of found and appropriated material to create simple metaphors that connect history to the present reality.
The exhibition in Gallery 2.1 features works by:
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 exhibition is supported by additional works along the Level 2 walkway by:
eX de Medici (Australia)
Raafat Ishak (Egypt/Australia)
Linda Marrinon (Australia)
Yao Jui-Chung (Taiwan)
GOMA Turns 5 Celebrations
GOMA is turning five and you’re invited to celebrate with us on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 December 2011!
Celebrate artists!
What better way to celebrate contemporary art than to have the opportunity to hear directly from exhibiting artists travelling from around Australia.
Saturday 3 December 2011
1.00pm | Level 2, Media Gallery
Join artist William Yang as he shares his work on display in the current exhibition ‘The Hand, The Eye & The Heart’
For a complete listing of programs and events scheduled over the GOMA Turns 5 celebration weekend, please click here.
Programs and Events
Special guest lecture | 'Heart and Soul, Brain and Mind'
Friday 9 December 2011 | 6.00pm Cinema B, GOMA
Professor Max Bennett, AO, Professor of Neuroscience, University Chair, and Director of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney. Introduction by José Da Silva, Senior Curator, Australian Cinémathèque. Free, no bookings required.
