Watch the installation time-lapse of Cai Guo-Qiang's 'Heritage'

Cai Guo-Qiang's 'Heritage' is a ‘last paradise’ inspired by Queensland’s North Stradbroke Island. 'Heritage' offers an indelible, if impossible, image of the natural world in a moment of perfect harmony, while also gently evoking a mood of crisis, comprising 99 replicas of animals that bow to drink from a vast blue waterhole surrounded by white sand. The pristine environment of the work embodies Cai’s perception of Queensland as a kind of ‘last paradise’, where the woes plaguing the rest of the human and natural worlds are yet to take hold.

After an absence of six years since 'Heritage' was last on display, 45 of the animals will gather together again to drink from the brilliant blue waterhole when our major Summer exhibition ‘Water’ opens at GOMA from 7 December 2019 - 26 April 2020.

Cai Guo-Qiang, China b.1957 / Heritage 2013 / 99 life-sized replicas of animals / Commissioned 2013 with funds from the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Diversity Foundation through and with the assistance of the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art Foundation / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Cai Guo-Qiang

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Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Brisbane Australia / 7 Dec 2019 - 26 Apr 2020
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