Another Landscape: History Life Language

About the exhibition
Another Landscape—History/Life/Language brought together three contemporary artists from Australia, Japan and India in an international exchange exhibition that sought to foster deeper mutual understanding across cultural perspectives. Led by Japanese curator Emiko Namikawa, the project centred on each artist’s investigation into the fundamental dimensions of human experience via language, memory and the body.

Kaora Hirabayashi’s sculptural work explored the intricate characters of the Japanese alphabet. Nalini Malani contributed a video work that captured the terrain  of a widow’s memory as she struggled to take care of her family. Judith Wright’s work included projections of images of body parts, moving ambiguously in murky liquids and dim light.

Looking beyond the social, economic and cultural problems that marked the close of the twentieth century, the exhibition privileged the cosmic, the spiritual and the inner self as alternative pathways to sensing and knowing.

Acknowledgements
This exhibition was organised by the Saito Memorial Kawaguchi Museum of Contemporary Art; funded by The Kao Foundation for Arts and Sciences, POLA Art Foundation, and the Arts Office of the Queensland Government; and assisted by the Embassy of India, Australian Embassy.

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^{Image: Kaoru Hirabayashi, Azure power 1998, found objects from a beach (sticks, rocks, sea shells and bottles), tissue paper and ink, 200 x 200 x 30 cm}