16 January – 22 February 2004
A group exhibition, featuring international lens based artists Anthony Lam, Dinu Li, Ellinda Siu, Liu Xiao Xian and William Yang
What significance does ‘home’ have for contemporary society when our lives are becoming increasingly transitory? Our society is one where geographic boundaries are constantly shifting and people forever moving. Our world is one that is increasingly connected by the Internet and mobile communications, linking continents and cultures. Within these contexts, cultures and identities are moulded and re-moulded.
Home brings together five contemporary Chinese artists from Australia, Canada, and UK who work in video, photography and projections and offer their responses to the meaning of ‘home’ or their sense of ‘home’.
Headspace reflects Anthony Lam’s relationship with intimacy and distance. Presented as projected images documenting, Lam’s fascination with chance encounters taking place Hong Kong’s urban environment.
Transformer is an observation of three male characters as they live out their private lives. Dinu Li’s video piece reveals intimate moments of the characters’ lives, shifting the role of the audience from observer to voyeur.
Ellinda Siu’s Room Tones focuses on the domestic sounds that surround us; sounds that are so familiar that we no longer hear them. Background sounds such as a humming fridge or a dripping tap create a sense of tension as we are drawn into a darkened space.
Liu Xiao Xian’s large-scale digital image presents a utopian fantasy. His work reveals two distinctly different places; a motherland and the new homeland, brought together in one location and time.
My Family in North Queensland charts William Yang’s journey of atonement as he tries to reconnect with his own ancestry. Yang’s refusal to acknowledge his heritage in his early life is matched today by his systematic cataloguing of past family ties.
Home has been curated by Dinu Li, in partnership with Chinese Arts Centre.
The Touring Programme is supported by Arts Council England.
Home has been supported by Malmaison Hotels Bars & Brasseries
