Qureshi’s works</a> bear witness to the indelible presence of history and the persistence of trauma, dislocation and loss, coupled with the uncertainties of love. In her meticulously painted vignettes, lonely female figures frequently float among fields of colour, paradoxically inscribed on the page and yet yearning for freedom.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Cao Fei</a> (pronounced tsow fay) 曹 斐 brings the energy of the contemporary metropolis into the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/8167521662F3DEC2">Art Gallery of New South Wales</a> with a retrospective that includes two new commissions.</p><p>Cao was recently voted one of the most influential artists in the world. Born in Guangzhou in 1978 and based in Beijing, she has documented China’s rapid urbanisation and digital revolutions for over two decades. Her acclaimed films, photography and large-scale installations offer thrilling encounters with the disorienting, quick-fire transformations of the new millennium.&nbsp;</p><p>My City is Yours 欢迎登陆 is an invitation into a world of neon, street dance and pop music; a city both familiar and warped, real and virtual. Enter the exhibition via a replica 1960s Beijing cinema foyer, and exit through a homage to a popular Sydney yum cha restaurant.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Designed by the artist and Beau Architects of Hong Kong, the exhibition takes the form of a cityscape. It’s a space of play and self-reinvention, where cosplayers and hip-hop dancers take over sidewalks in Fukuoka and New York. It’s a city of screens and pixels, mediated by gaming technologies, VR and the metaverse. It’s a city under construction, where neighbourhoods are razed overnight and workers compete for jobs with robots.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Angelica Mesiti</a> is creating an immersive installation for the former wartime oil bunker beneath Naala Badu, the <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/8167521662F3DEC2">Art Gallery of New South Wales</a>’ north building.</p><p>A rich visual and sonic experience, Angelica Mesiti: The Rites of When is a large-scale video and sound installation that reimagines collective and communal rituals in relation to seasonal cycles, at a time of environmental uncertainty and flux.</p><p>Mesiti adapts choreography, vocal choruses, instrumentation and collective sound-making to re-examine activities familiar to communities who have deep bonds with seasonal rhythms. Ecstatic celebrations associated with specific moments in the calendar – notably mid-winter solstice carnivals and mid-summer harvest festivals – are played out across seven monolithic screens, offering a portal into a realm alongside past and present: an imagined alternative.</p><p>The Rites of When is also informed by the enduring tradition of depicting, describing and understanding life on Earth by studying the movements of the stars in the night sky. Elements within the Tank reference the prehistoric Nebra sky disc, which contains an early depiction of the Pleiades star cluster. In cultures around the world, this celestial body has been a harbinger of seasonal activity on land and water. The Pleiades provides a symbolic cartography for Mesiti’s installation, a gesture to communal creativity on a global scale.</p><p>As cycles of regeneration in nature shift out of sync and people around the globe increasingly live in urbanised environments, removed from nature, The Rites of When explores the possibilities of inventing new rituals and finding adaptive pathways for connection.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Art Gallery of New South Wales</a> in the 1976 Biennale of Sydney, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Artist/Lee-Ufan/58C8C83C55A2E407">Lee Ufan</a> returns to Sydney. Within spaces designed by the artist, this new exhibition distils over six decades of considered experimentation into a series of new paintings and sculptures created especially for the Art Gallery.</p><p>Lee’s sparing use of simple materials, including stone, steel and canvas, has a quiet force that encourages contemplation and consideration of the physical and intellectual self in relation to the work. He is also a writer whose philosophical approach to art embraces Zen and Confucian thought, alongside aesthetic ideas of emptiness, known as ma.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>For Lee, the space around objects is as significant as the objects themselves. His conceptual and minimalist approach has been influential in art, design and philosophy, with artists Anish Kapoor and Park Seo-Bo as well as architect Tadao Ando among the prominent figures inspired by his art.&nbsp;</p><p>Born in Korea in 1936, Lee lives between Japan and France. In the 1960s he was a founder of Japan’s Mono-ha (object school) movement, which emphasised relationships between natural and industrial materials, and between objects and their viewers. He was also associated with the Dansaekhwa monochrome movement that emerged in Korea in the 1950s as part of a search for a universal aesthetic that was separate from tradition and without nationalist associations.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Eadweard Muybridge</a>’s revelatory photographs of human movement from the 1880s, the exhibition brings together sculptures, video, photographs and installations by artists spanning a century – from <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Artist/Edgar-Degas/5BD9AC31E0BA6CC7">Edgar Degas</a> in the early 1900s to Gabriella and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Artist/Silvana-Mangano/E66FA0F50691A2A2">Silvana Mangano</a> in the early 2000s.</p><p><a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Artist/Daniel-Crooks/097EFCCD7736509C">Daniel Crooks</a>, paying contemporary homage to Muybridge, tracks his own movement in a sinuous sculpture. <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Artist/Joanna-Piotrowska/A03349DD3A527103">Joanna Piotrowska photographs</a> women in poses that suggest both dance and self-defence. The artist duo <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Artist/nova-Milne/364DAF89C622A302">nova Milne</a>, in their video installation, choreograph an endless meeting and parting of their bodies.</p><p>Finally, viewers’ own bodies come into play in <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Art-Gallery-of-New-South-Wales/"/Artist/Anthony-McCall/5C275381D6F08D71">Anthony McCall</a>’s much-loved ‘solid light’ work Meeting you halfway II – an installation that invites us to locate our own ever-changing place in the world relative to others.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />