Sydney Contemporary is sharing Australasian artists’ works with the world

Bringing a wide array of contemporary artistic works to an internationally recognized world stage, the Sydney Contemporary is the leading art fair exposing the works of the Australasian sphere to eagerly awaiting audiences. The landscape of racial diversity in Australia is one that may look unfamiliar to American audiences, but it is one that is made bountiful by the contributions of aboriginal, East Asian and South Asian communities, among others.

Salote Tawale

A one off revival of an interactive and ongoing exploration into self portraiture, the artist’s interactive play in self portraiture occupies multiplicity within time and space. The work is part performance, part live-feed video streams and interventions into different areas around the fair.

Rakini Devi

A corporeal manifestation of a holy space, Devi’s performance piece, Reliquary Body, is an homage to the practice of ritual, a reimagining of the body as sacred and a testament to the artist’s research into European Marian traditions, Byzantine relics, Medieval Western practices, as well as those of the Islamic east.

Angela Tiatia

A force of motion duplicately embodied, Tiatia’s moving image work Narcissus, is a slow-motion reference to a 1500s-era painting by Michelangelo Merísi da Caravaggio choreographed between 40 subjects. With its staid pace and building billows, the work calls into question the role of the individual in the fast-paced, online contemporary present.

Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran

An exploration of idolatry, reverence and the role of the monument in culture, Nithiyendran’s large-scale sculpture, Double-Sided, Multi-Limbed Guardian, is poised at the festival’s entryway. The sculptor references both Hindu guardian figures called Dvarapala and Japanese sculptures which play an equivalent role in their tradition to bring forth a larger than life estimation of what figure may guard an artist’s temple.

Talk Contemporary | It’s 50 Years Of Papunya Tula Pty Ltd! Celebrating Community-Owned Art Centres, Now And Into The Future

This panel discussion aims to shine a light on the leading contemporary artists emerging from remote communities. The talk is part of the First Nations Voices program and will explore the role of storytelling and the market demand for indigenous voices in Australia.

This story was originally published September 8, 2022 at 12:46 PM with the headline "Sydney Contemporary is sharing Australasian artists’ works with the world."