Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia - Queensland Art Gallery

Jana STERBAK
b.1955 Czech Republic/Canada
Lives and works in Montreal, Canada and Barcelona, Spain
Jana Sterbak's practice encompasses sculpture, photography, performance, video and installation, and draws on a rich
vein of Czech Surrealism. Her works elaborate on desire, constraint, the body, technology and artistic creation.
Beat STREULI
b.1957 Switzerland
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Beat Streuli engages with the longstanding tradition of works that reflect urban life, its energy, its speed and its crowds.
He presents intimate portraits taken within a public context, offering open-ended narratives and a poignant examination
of public identity and glimpsed inner life. Employing a serial, almost documentary style in his work, Streuli plays on
contradictions and polarities such as the natural and the stylised, documentary and fiction, public and private.
SUPERFLEX
est. 1993 Denmark
SUPERFLEX is a collaboration between Danish artists Bjørnstjerne Reuter Christiansen, Jakob Fenger and Rasmus
Nielsen. Their practice is characterised by a high level of social engagement and responds to a range of contemporary
political and social themes, including the financial markets, labour conditions, copyright law and environmentalism. They
often involve professionals from non-art disciplines in the development of their projects, which the artists describe as
'tools' in both a practical, use-value or consciousness-raising sense, as well as having a conceptual or metaphorical
dimension.
Mitra TABRIZIAN
b. Iran
Lives in England
Mitra Tabrizian’s large-format photographs combine techniques from documentary photography and highly stylised mise
en scene to capture her subjects and settings with meticulous attention to detail and lighting.
Pascale Marthine TAYOU
b.1967 Cameroon
Lives and works in Ghent, Belgium
Pascale Marthine Tayou’s drawings, sculptures, installations, videos and performances address issues of cultural and
national identity and borders in an age of global tourism, drawing on his own experiences of frequent travel. Tayou often
works with found materials, objects and images emblematic of people’s itinerancy and circulation around the world, such
as train and bus tickets, flags and postcards.
THE ATLAS GROUP / WALID RAAD
est. 1999 Lebanon / b.1967 Lebanon/United States
The Atlas Group is a project established by artist Walid Raad in 1999 with the aim of researching and documenting the
contemporary history of Lebanon, collecting and presenting what appear to be factual photographic, textual and video
documents. The documentary nature of their work's content contrasts with its aestheticised presentation, ultimately
leading the viewer to question the validity of the information presented. By extension, they examines broader issues of
authorship, legitimacy and authenticity related to the writing of history and media reportage.