Triennial

Featuring the work of over 100 artists and designers from 32 countries, the NGV Triennial surveys the world of art and design, across cultures, scales, geographies and perspectives. 
I attended a Members preview and roam date varied exhibits for a few hours. 
It is a free exhibition running over summer so plenty of time to get back to see it in detail.
Some of my favourite /interesting exhibitions.

Victoria Amazonica, 2017, was created by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana in collaboration with Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, designers Elliat Rich and James Young and the Centre for Appropriate Technology – all based in Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.

 At 18 metres long, Eternity-Buddha in Nirvana… is the largest work in Xu's Eternal series and has been commissioned by the gallery for the inaugural NGV Triennial

Sissel Tolaas is a smell designer, artist, chemist, researcher and odour theorist working across research, commercial and creative innovation. While smell is Tolaas’s medium, her approach to scent is anything but conventional; for the artist, smell is information.

Flower obsession, 2017, revisits the origins of Kusama’s art which she traces back to her childhood.Flower obsession, 2017, recreates a furnished domestic space. Visitors are invited to apply red flower motifs to the walls, furniture and objects. Over the duration of the exhibition, the proliferation of flowers will gradually cover all surfaces, ‘obliterating’ and transforming the space into a spectacular environment.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s work in the NGV Triennial Wilson Must Go, 2017, employs a camera that uses face recognition software to produce a live portrait of the viewer from six perspectives at once. If several visitors stand in front of the work, a composite portrait of their different facial features develops in real time, creating an unsettling composite ‘selfie’.

Ron Meuck's Mass is also a sombre study of mortality, and comprising 100 individual human skulls it calls to mind iconic images of massed remains in the Paris catacombs as well as the documentation of contemporary human atrocities in Cambodia, Rwanda, Srebrenica and Iraq.

For the NGV Triennial, teamLab has created a fully immersive digital installation inspired by human, digital and spatial relationships. When a person moves within this environment, their movement is tracked by sensors that communicate via computer with the projectors – thus movement creates a visual vortex – expressing the movement of each person in the space as a continuum of digital particles