Isaac Chong Wai, at the exhibition MEMORY/MYTH at Ames Yavuz, Sydney (14/06/2024)
MEMORY/MYTH, is a program of films and video installations curated by Director of Ames Yavuz, Ananya Mukhopadhyay. The exhibition includes 20 works which will be shown for the first time in Australia by 27 internationally renowned artists, exploring indigeneity, diaspora and the intersecting global legacies of the imperial project.
MEMORY/MYTH is a program of films and video installations borne from distinct yet overlapping experiences of indigeneity, diaspora and the intersecting global legacies of colonialism. Through contemporary and historic works by a group of acclaimed international artists, Ames Yavuz presents a conversation between kindred spirits — authors united by their shared inheritance of landscapes and stories ravaged by the imperial project. The extensive lacunae in such histories are visited by these artists as sites for both mourning and discovery, while also being generative spaces for myth-making, fantasy and the curative contemplation of possible futures.
MEMORY/MYTH runs from 14 June – 13 July 2024 at 114 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills, Sydney.
https://amesyavuz.com/exhibitions/memory-myth/
Image: Isaac Chong Wai, Die Mütter, 2022, two channel video, 14’00”