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NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA TRIENNIAL

THE INAUGURAL INTERACTIVE and immersive ‘NGV Triennial’, which concluded on 18 April, surveyed the work of more than 100 artists and designers from 32 countries and included art, fashion, design and architecture. It was dispersed across all floors of the NGV, which means you had to walk through the gallery’s collection.

At first I thought this was a good strategy, as it meant first-time visitors, or even those more familiar with the collection, discovered works they may not have encountered before as they searched out the ‘NGV Triennial’ works. There were, however,

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