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Still from Materialists (2025), Celine Song

Materialists – Tipping between the scales of the head and heart

August 23, 2025 in Review

 Celine Song’s Materialists is inspired by Song’s brief experience as a matchmaker, a past life that she thoroughly enjoyed too much that she had to step away to concentrate on her professional pursuit in the film industry. Having consumed many interviews on the making of the film (Modern Love being one of my favourites), I eventually find myself sitting in an intimate cinema around three Fridays ago, anticipating how the story would unfold..

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Tags: film, materialists, celine song

Hidden Meadow - A picturesque dreaming

June 20, 2025 in Architecture Review, Review

Four years after its opening, I’ve found myself on a bus towards West Kowloon, which unfortunately is a site that is still surrounded by a sea of construction, scaffolding and hoarding. Despite this, the travel to the museum was a straightforward one – an open atmosphere paved with grey tiles. It’s only when I walked slowly towards the walls that I immediately understood the narrative and the cultural reference tided towards the building façade.

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Tags: review, architecture, houses

M+ Museum: A Review 4 Years After Its Coveted Opening

February 16, 2025

Four years after its opening, I’ve found myself on a bus towards West Kowloon, which unfortunately is a site that is still surrounded by a sea of construction, scaffolding and hoarding. Despite this, the travel to the museum was a straightforward one – an open atmosphere paved with grey tiles. It’s only when I walked slowly towards the walls that I immediately understood the narrative and the cultural reference tided towards the building façade.

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Chandelier of Grief (2016) - Yayoi Kusama. Photo by Sean Fennessy

NGV 2024-5: Kusama 草間 – a revision of her artistry

January 02, 2025 in Review, Art x Architecture, The Media

NGV’s latest exhibition celebrates the life and career of well-known and arguably one of the most Instagrammable artists within the contemporary art world - Yayoi Kusama. Showcasing over 100 pieces of work that captures the early origins of her artwork to what we know as the sea of infinite dots – this exhibition presents a welcoming surprise to those who only know Kusama in the later years, while for some, may feel as a level of repetition of her other exhibition back in Brisbane’s Art Gallery during 2018.

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Tags: writing, thoughts, art, art review, gallery, ngv

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