Relative: Being Eurasian
VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
This PhD examination exhibition was to be installed at RMIT Site 8 Gallery. Below are artistic renditions of the installation, created as four images that allow you to view the space from four different viewpoints moving around the gallery space in a clockwise direction. A list of works included is at the end. The exhibition works presented here have been curated into two sections. The first section present works from three bodies of work that explore self portraiture, the Eurasian body, gestures, associations and beauty. The second section draws together an episodic and narrative led journey for the viewer by presenting an immersive hanging and installation of artistic works that explore notions of family, the family album, hybrid spaces and migration.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image depicts the exhibition from the view point of standing in Site 8 gallery, looking into the south western corner. The entry doors can be seen on the far left. The exhibition works presented along this corner reveal works that explore cultural identity through self portraiture and place, as well as notions of Eurasian beauty and the body.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image depicts the exhibition standing looking into the middle of Site 8 gallery, facing the western wall. You can see the same artworks from the previous image above, and continuing around the space the beginning installation of works on the northern wall that explore cross-cultural family photography, spaces and the archive.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image depicts a view of the north eastern corner, revealing the fuller curatorial hanging installation of cross-cultural family photography, spaces and archive.
IMAGE DESCRIPTION: This image depicts a view of the eastern wall, with sections of the north and south walls (including entry doors).
Exhibition list of works.
South wall (with entry doors, left - right):
Eurasian in Singapore #1. 2018. Archival inkjet print. 80cm x 55cm.
Eurasian in Singapore #2. 2018. Archival inkjet print. 80cm x 55cm.
Eurasian in Singapore #6. 2018. Archival inkjet print. 55cm x 80cm.
Eurasian in Singapore #5. 2018. Archival inkjet print. 55cm x 80cm.
West wall (circles: top - bottom, portrait photographs left - right):
Family Resemblance, after Wittgenstein #5, 2015/16. Archival inkjet print. 45cm x 45cm.
Family Resemblance, after Wittgenstein #16, 2015/16. Archival inkjet print. 45cm x 45cm.
Family Resemblance, after Wittgenstein #19, 2015/16. Archival inkjet print. 45cm x 45cm.
Family Resemblance, after Wittgenstein #20, 2015/16. Archival inkjet print. 45cm x 45cm.
Into Our First World #2 (My first cheongsam), 1988/2016. Original photographer unknown. Archival inkjet print. 55cm x 80cm.
Into Our First World #5, 2016. Archival inkjet print. 55cm x 80cm.
Into Our First World #4, 2016. Archival inkjet print. 55cm x 80cm.
Into Our First World #3, 2016. Archival inkjet print. 55cm x 80cm.
North wall (left - right):
Por Por from Por Por’s House series. 2014. Wall decal. 450cm x 300cm.
Becoming Por Por (after Beckett’s Not I) from She that came before me series. 2018/2020 (shortened version). 2 channel HD video. 3”.
Bookcase from Por Por’s House series. 2014. Wall decal. 200cm x 120cm.
Remembering Por Por (detail). 2020. Archival inkjet print. 51cm x 34cm.
Bedroom from Nonna’s House series. 2018. 42cm x 30cm.
Remembering Por Por (detail). 2020. Archival inkjet print. 51cm x 34cm.
Mother, 6 years old, from the family archive, from She that came before me series. Original photographer unknown. 2018. Scanned original, archival inkjet print. 30cm x 42cm.
Remembering Por Por (detail). 2020. Archival inkjet print. 51cm x 34cm.
Family Portrait Wall. 2014. Wall decal. 450cm x 300cm (goes over the north eastern corner).
East wall (left - right):
Photographs of Mum, from the family archive, from She that came before me series. Original photographers unknown. 2018. Scanned originals, archival inkjet print. 30cm x 42cm.
Time passing from She that came before me series. 2018. Archival inkjet print. 30cm x 42cm.
Remembering Por Por (detail). 2020. Archival inkjet print. 102cm x 68cm.
Nonne from Nonna’s House series. 2018. Archival inkjet print. 84cm x 59cm.
Still life with granddaughter portrait (self-portrait), from Por Por’s House series. 2014. Wall decal. 200cm x 300cm.
Granddaughter portrait with family portraits (self-portrait), from Nonna’s House series. 2018. 30cm x 42cm.