18 June – 13 September 2006
Owen Leong is an Australian born Chinese artist living in a nation with a history of racial anxiety. Throughout popular culture, images are impregnated with a sense of whiteness that recapitulates one’s difference through race. Leong’s work grapples with an urgency to move beyond structures that bind notions of identity to our bodies, where body language and behavioral patterns become a vehicle through which this escape is staged.
During his Breathe residency, Leong will be developing new sculpture and video works to explore the constructs with which the body is physically, socially and culturally framed.
On Thurs 13 July from 6pm-8pm, current resident artist Owen Leong will be premiering Milk Ring, a new video work recently completed in Sydney. This video depicts the artist held in stasis within a ring of dripping milk with his hands bound by a honey puzzle. He will also produce a new wall painting to accompany a video projection of Second Skin, in which honey streams onto his head as he pushes and pulls at his face in a private ritual of transformation.
Click on the link to visit Owen’s website: www.owenleong.com
