Dear Homeland, is a sensitive inquiry into the East- and Southeast-Asian Australian diasporic identity. Unified by their diasporic history and biographical practices, the artists work to individualise their unique experiences post-migration, deconstructing how locality and heritage coalesce and manifest through artistic practices that span a vast array of different mediums.
The mantle piece has become a place where objects are discarded, arranged or placed. It is an altar of the day, a place of trace. My mantle piece no longer channels smoke up a chimney. Rather, it sits comfortably and changeably, collecting day to day activities and memories through the objects placed on it and removed. Each object placed on the mantle has its own sense of time and memory embedded in it. These objects form new non-linear temporalities, unexpected possibilities. These objects placed together form a new narrative and this narrative is adaptable.
OPENING: Tuesday 21 May 2019, 5.00pm - 8.00pm
EXHIBITION: 22 May - 6 June 2019
WHERE: KUDOS GALLERY
ADDRESS: 6 NAPIER STREET, PADDINGTON NSW 2021
HOURS: WED TO FRI 11AM-6PM, SAT 11AM-4PM
Kudos Gallery is run by UNSW Art & Design students and funded by Arc @ UNSW Limited.
