Fragments: Another Country
Qut Art Museum
A city made out of packing boxes is one of the amazing large scale art installations featured in Fragments: Another Country by Filipino-born artists and Brisbane residents Alfredo and Izabel Aquilizan.
The notion of home is a central theme in all of their intricate and elaborate works, with the ongoing exploration of surrounding themes like dislocation, migration, family and belonging, all inspired by their own life experiences. Similarly their choice of cheap and semi-permanent materials is also reflective of these themes, with cardboard and personal items frequently featured.
Since migrating to Australia in 2006 the couple, who have five children, have made their name in the contemporary art world, participating in biennales and triennales in Venice, Singapore, Sydney and most recently Sharjah and Moscow. They also came to notice in Brisbane at the 2009 APT6 at GOMA with their popular installation Inflight: Another Country.
Like this and their others, their exhibition is more than a showing of art but a platform to engage audiences and involve them with the further creation of objects and ideas.
Need to know: Settlement, the city of packing boxes is also an fantastic all-ages interactive project, designed to engage audiences hands-on in an ongoing building process that will see it evolve throughout the exhibition time.
