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Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney

At Primavera 2025, young Australian artists consider making art in the age of commodities

Alexandra Peters, The Infinite Image (detail), Defenestration (Autoantibodies), acrylic and water-based ink with screen-print medium and paste on leatherette and Leg Over Leg V, commercial carpet, 2025, installation view, Primavera 2025: Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, 2025. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia © the artist, photograph: Hamish McIntosh

Primavera is the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual spring exhibition featuring selected Australian artists under 35. This year, curator Tim Riley Walsh asks what it means for artists to create in a post-industrial age of reproduction.

Walsh foregrounds a material fascination running through the artists’ works.

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