GOMA’s summer blockbuster exhibition, Air, premieres on Saturday November 26 and is set to spotlight eye-catching works by celebrated artists including Carlos Amorales, Dora Budor, Tacita Dean, Mona Hatoum, Jonathan Jones, Anthony McCall, Ron Mueck, Jamie North, Thu Van Tran, Tomás Saraceno and Jemima Wyman. Air, which follows GOMA’s 2019-20’s major exhibition Water, comes alive through five chapters – Atmosphere, Shared, Burn, Invisible and Change. These chapters come together to inspire visitors to think deeply about the global and social challenges we face on a day-to-day basis.

Gallery goers can expect to be enchanted by a vast selection of artworks that explore air and its centrality to life. At the heart of the exhibition is major new commission ‘Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms’ (2022) by Argentinian-born artist Tomás Saraceno, which sees a mesmerising collection of partially mirrored spheres suspended balloon-like above art lover’s heads. Next up is ‘Chalk Fall’ (2018), a large-scale drawing by leading UK artist and filmmaker Tacita Dean, which evokes England’s Cliffs of Dover in chalk. Keen peepers will also be treated to Dora Budor’s trio of glass chambers ‘Origins I–III‘ (2019), containing volcanic mounds and puffed clouds of pigmented dust, and Jonathan Jones’s ‘untitled (giran)’ 2018, an installation of bird-like sculptures with an accompanying soundscape that is sure to bewitch all of the senses. Hard-hitting scenes are central in Rachel Mounsey’s powerful photographs that document the 2019 Victorian bushfires, which she captured turning the morning skies a harrowing shade of red.
 
Eager to take in this engaging exhibition? Air will be accompanied by a film program in the Australian Cinémathèque and a major publication featuring essays by exhibition curator Geraldine Kirrihi Barlow and many others. For more information or to purchase tickets visit the QAGOMA website.