Asia Pacific Triennial 11: an enormous explosion of colour and reassuring optimism

Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
With more than 500 art works, the 2024 APT touches on environmental and political crises, but opts to focus on care, community and the cosmos

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A lot has happened since the last Asia Pacific Triennial in 2021, when it opened, quietly, during Covid border lockdowns in Queensland. Besides a global pandemic, Trump won a second term, two major wars have erupted, and climate change has marched grimly onwards, with countless extreme weather events and temperature records broken.

Perhaps it’s no surprise, then, that the billboard announcing the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial is emblazoned with the optimistic slogan: “Art that lifts you up”. Does it, though? Should it?

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