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In Absence | Behind the Design

2019 NGV Architecture Commission

In Absence, an installation created by 2019 Architecture Commission winners Yhonnie Scarce and Melbourne architecture studio Edition Office invites audiences to understand the fallacy of the premise of terra nullius, which declared Australia as an emptiness awaiting ownership. The work features 1600 black glass Murnong (yams) by Yhonnie Scarce.

Location
Grollo Equiset Garden
Ground Level, NGV International
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Artwork
In Absence, 2019 | Yhonnie SCARCE and EDITION OFFICE

The NGV Architecture Commission is supported by RMIT University, Macquarie Group, Tasmania Timber and The Hugh D.T. Williamson Foundation, and the competition process is managed by Citylab.

The NGV Architecture Commission is a component of the State Government’s annual Victorian Design Program.

Yhonnie Scarce & Edition Office Architecture Art Australia Design Indigenous Indigenous art Sculpture & Installation Design & Architecture
2019 Architecture Commission

In Absence | Yhonnie Scarce and Edition Office

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Ivan Durrant | Exhibition video tour TIWI | Exhibition video tour Triennial conversations | House Of Heroines Lara Schnitger in conversation with Pip Wallis Triennial conversations | Quantum memories Refik Anadol in conversation with Simone LeAmon Triennial conversations | Downtime Faye Toogood in conversation with Simone LeAmon Triennial conversations | Crystalline Erez Nevi Pana in conversation with Ewan McEoin ANAM at NGV Massive journey of personally nocturne’d object | James Gleeson ANAM at NGV Inspiration | Aby Altson ANAM at NGV Cahill Expressway | Jeffrey Smart ANAM at NGV An old bee farm | Clara Southern ANAM at NGV The Bridge in-curve | Grace Cossington Smith ANAM at NGV Actual fractual | Howard Arkley Exhibition Tour – Collecting Comme Art Tour – Women in Art: 17th–18th Century Exhibition Tour – Japanese Modernism Top Arts 2020 Exhibition Introduction Artist Talk – In Absence: NGV Architecture Commission 2019 Exhibition Tour – Colin McCahon: Letters and Numbers Sarabande from Bach’s Suite No 1 for Violoncello in the Salon Gallery Inspired by Salomon van Ruysdael's River landscape with boats Art Tour – The European Grand Tour Art Tour – The Great Nineteenth Century Art Highlights: The First Cloud & Anguish Debussy’s Syrinx in the Salon Gallery Inspired by Edward Burne-Jones’s The garden of Pan Bach’s Allemande from the D minor Partita No 2 in the Gallery Inspired by Meindert Hobbema’s The old oak Grace Crowley’s Girl with goats With Beckett Rozentals, Curator of Australian Painting, Sculpture & Decorative Arts to 1980 A Master of Indigenous art | Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula’s Kampurarrpa With Judith Ryan AM, Senior Curator of Indigenous art Louise Bouteiller’s Césarine de Houdetot, Baronne de Barante, reading Paul et Virginie With Senior Curator of International art, Ted Gott Edwin Landseer’s Scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream With Senior Curator of International art, Ted Gott Arthur Streeton’s Corfe Castle With Curator of International Art, Laurie Benson In Absence | Behind the Design 2019 NGV Architecture Commission Part 5: Senior Warlpiri women render permanent sacred designs Marking Time guided exhibition tour Part 4: Iconography in modern art forms Marking Time guided exhibition tour Part 3: A momentous change in Indigenous Art Marking Time guided exhibition tour Part 2: From rock escarpment to bark Marking Time guided exhibition tour Part 1: Introducing Marking Time Marking Time guided exhibition tour Drop-by Drawing with Kenny Pittock | The Melon A how-to series on sketching Drop-by Drawing with Minna Gilligan A how-to series on sketching Drop-by Drawing with Lily Mae Martin A how-to series on sketching Josephine and Napoléon divorce Laurie Benson shares the story behind the painting Elizabeth Thompson’s The 28th Regiment at Quatre Bras A celebrated military painter A hand is discovered in Anne Forbes’ Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Hamilton Dr. Maria Quirk reflects on the work Tom Roberts: naturalistic bent Curator Talk John Brack: Capturing the ordinary Curator Talk

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