The Simon Lee Foundation Institute of Contemporary Asian Art, a major curatorial initiative at The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA), presents Star Machine, the first major museum exhibition of Farah Al Qasimi (b. 1991, Abu Dhabi) in Australia. Opening on 4 February 2023, this vibrant installation brings together over 20 works from a key five-year period of the artist’s practice (2017-2021) and includes some of her most well-known photographs and the recent video General Behaviour (2020). Employing overflowing frames, reflective surfaces, fractured perspectives, precise lighting and, above all, a meticulous attention to detail, the works help us freshly frame important questions around ‘what do photos do now?’.
