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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Eddy Frankel

V&A Rising Voices review – can decades of stunning global art really be squished into three rooms?

A decorative historical map with illustrated ships, soldiers, buildings, and figures in military uniforms arranged around waterways and land.
Laying bare injustice … Pala Pothupitiye, Kalutara Fort, 2020– 21. Photograph: © Pala Pothupitiye

Every three years, Queensland Art Gallery scours the whole of Asia, Australia and the Pacific (which is probably why it takes three years) to find the best art being made across the region. The Asia Pacific Triennial is a giant, incomprehensibly enormous task.

Now, the V&A is somehow trying to sum up those three decades of art from multiple continents, dozens of island nations, countless Indigenous populations in … three rooms. Help!

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