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

THUKRAL & TAGRA
Jiten Thukral / b.1976 India
Sumir Tagra / b.1979 India
Live and work in Gurgaon, India
Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra (Thukral & Tagra) offer a seductive and vibrant take on contemporary Indian society and
culture. Thukral & Tagra's refined aesthetic is applied to painting, sculpture and installation as well as graphics, interiors,
fashion and product design. Much of their work is inspired by the pressures in Punjabi society on young people,
particularly young men, to move abroad. While wandering and migration are longstanding in Punjabi culture, emigration
accelerated during the second half of the twentieth century due to a range of factors, including increased global demand
for labour and more relaxed immigration policies.
Guy TILLIM
b.1962 South Africa
Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa
Guy Tillim began working as a professional photographer in 1986 for agencies such as Afrapix, Reuters and Agence
France Presse. He continued to work as a photographer for the news media but since the mid-1990s his works have
also appeared in a contemporary art context. For his celebrated 2007 series 'Avenue Patrice Lumumba', Tillim travelled
through Angola, Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Madagascar recording the modernist
architecture and city planning that framed Africa's postcolonial pursuit of democracy.
Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA
b.1961 Thailand
Lives and works in New York, United States; Berlin, Germany and Bangkok, Thailand
In today's image-saturated world, every time we turn on the television, open the newspaper or surf the internet we are
bombarded with images of people, events and problems far removed from our own lives. Since the early 1990s, Rirkrit
Tiravanija's practice has involved shifting his audience from passive spectators to active subjects.
THE TISSUE CULTURE AND ART PROJECT
Est. 1996 Perth, Western Australia
Oron Catts, b.1967 Finland
Onat Zurr, b.1970 England
Live and work in Perth, Australia
The Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A) is an ongoing artistic research and development project into the use of tissue
technologies as a medium for artistic expression. Pioneering in the field of biological art (or ‘bio-art’), the TC&A was
central to the establishment of SymbioticA – The Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, in the School of Anatomy and
Human Biology at the University of Western Australia in 2002.
TSUI Kuang-Yu
b.1974 Taiwan
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tsui Kuang-Yu uses video, performance and photography to examine aspects of urban life and human behaviour
in regulated contemporary city environments. A recurrent feature in Tsui's work is a sophisticated critique of public life,
its social groups and urban systems. He considers how the time-poor city-dweller contends with a population density
and pace that impels order and efficiency.