On entering the Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) the first thing the visitor sees is a large-scale photograph in the foyer, filling one wall, showing a donkey, placidly standing alone in a dinghy.

Walking further into the gallery's central atrium, and you come across a 14-metre tall comic-strip cell in homage to Lincoln Peirce's Big Nate, with the words 'One Picture is Worth a Thousand of Those Suckers'.

In a ground-floor gallery large fluorescent, feathered polar bears leap and hang from the ceiling while next door, large multi-coloured wall murals read: Free Humans, God let me hunt and Please don't get a divorce.

It's all part of AGWA's latest exhibition, titled I don't like it, I love it, by Italian artist Paola Pivi.

"The title was created by my husband, who is a Tibetan son

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