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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Kelly Burke

The politics of air: Goma’s blockbuster exhibition is an ‘incredibly powerful’ ode to an element

Installation view of Air, which is open at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art until April 2023
From anger and darkness to spectacle and joy: Air is open at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art until April 2023. Photograph: Joe Ruckli/QAGOMA

When Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art opened its Water exhibition in the summer of 2019, the state was consumed by drought, and ablaze in the worst bushfires in modern Australian history.

How would people receive what was planned to be a blockbuster exhibition, fretted the museum’s international curator, Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow, when it was supposed to celebrate what the country lacked most?

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