Artist Talk: Ochirbold Ayurzana

Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana / Sukhbaatar Province, Mongolia, b.1976, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, b.1982 / Life cup 2023 / Metal and aluminium / 1967 skulls: 13 x 10.5 x 6.5cm (each, approx.); 400 x 1400cm (installed) / Courtesy: The artists /

Nomin Bold and Ochirbold Ayurzana / Sukhbaatar Province, Mongolia, b.1976, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, b.1982 / Life cup 2023 / Metal and aluminium / 1967 skulls: 13 x 10.5 x 6.5cm (each, approx.); 400 x 1400cm (installed) / Courtesy: The artists / / View full image

When

12.00 – 12.30 pm, Sun 1 Dec 2024

Where

Gallery of Modern Art, Gallery 1.1 (The Fairfax Gallery)

Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Accessible

What to Expect

About

Join Triennial artist, Ochirbold Ayurzana for a talk about his installation, Life Cup 2023, made in collaboration with Nomin Bold and consisting of 1967 suspended cast-metal skulls. For the artists, skulls are ‘life cups’: vessels for human souls and consciousness that are arranged in rhythmic arrangement of morse code, transliterated from four stanzas of ‘Hymn to the universe’, a nineteenth-century poem invoking karmic cyclical states.

Tarun Nagesh, Curatorial Manager, Asian & Pacific Art, QAGOMA.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Nomin Bold will no longer be appearing in this talk.