Photo: N Harth, courtesy Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art
As its name makes plain, this exhibition is all about awe and wonder. Presented across six chapters, Wonderstruck will include more than 100 works drawn from the Gallery’s Collection with a slight emphasis on interactive and immersive experiences. Included in the exhibition are Ai Weiwei’s display of Neolithic pottery subversively dipped in brightly coloured paint as well as Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s expansive six-panel tessellated mirror mosaic Lightning for Neda (2009), which draws the viewer into its highly reflective surface and shifting vanishing points. "To be struck by wonder is not to escape reality, but to live with heightened awareness, and this exhibition reminds us that opportunities to experience awe and wonder are everywhere if we just stop and notice."
Learn more at qagoma.qld.gov.au.
