I have been to the NGV twice over the past couple months in order to see the entire exhibition - once on the evening of 11 February for Triennial Extra with Mary and Belinda (the day before we went into a short five-day lockdown) and then again today to see the remaining pieces on Levels 2 and 3. There are so many amazing works, but these were my favorites in the exhibition:
Refik Anadol's Quantum Memories is a giant LED screen with real-time digital animation that is impossible to miss as you walk in on the ground floor. It was mesmerising to stand there and watch the changes to the 3D animations.
Porky Hefer's Plastocene - Marine Mutants from a Disposable World is a very playful room with these giant handmade creatures on the ground and hanging from the ceiling.
Outside in the garden are these fantastic large-scale stained glass window portraits by the French paste-up street artist JR for his project Homily to Country about the ecological decline of the Darling River system.
In its own room on the ground floor are the tiny hand-carved wood sculptures of different people by Tomoaki Suzuki. Each figure is scaled down to one third of the model's size.
Up on Level 1 is the architectural installation Botanical Pavilion by Kengo Kuma and Geoff Nees. The wooden pieces interlock and are held together by tension and gravity. It was cool to walk around and through the pavilion to admire this intricate work.
On Level 2 is Carnovsky's immersive wallpaper installation Extinctions, which has different insect and animal species printed on it in red, green or blue ink based on their extinction threat level. When different colored lights are projected on the wallpaper you see different parts of the print. It was quite a clever piece.
The NGV Triennial runs until 18 April 2021.
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