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  • Clay sculpture of a disembodied head resting with other pottery items on the ground; black and white image
  • A folded Australian five dollar note, on the ground, half in shadow.
  • Random objects arranged on light coloured fabric, including a small wooden box, a small head and shoulders bust on its side, and painted flat plates.
Until 30 May

Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归)

  • Free
  • Art

Artist Ming Liew presents Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归) — an exhibition exploring first-generation Chinese-Australian identity.

Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归) examines first-generation Chinese-Australian hybrid identity — an identity shaped by migration, memory, and the ongoing negotiation between two worlds. Guided by the idea that what draws our gaze reveals who we are, the exhibition presents a series of autoethnographic moving-image works that reflect a perspective both distinctly Chinese and deeply informed by life in Australia. Suspended between a former homeland and a present place of belonging, the works speak to the liminality and incompleteness of the first-generation immigrant experience — where home is both familiar and foreign, ever-present yet always just beyond reach.

Come along to the opening event on Friday 9 May, 6pm, and join the free artist talk on Sunday 18 May, 2pm.

This is a free exhibition supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.

Hours

Date Times
Sat 17 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Sun 18 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Wed 21 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Thu 22 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Fri 23 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Sat 24 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Sun 25 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Wed 28 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Thu 29 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm
Fri 30 May
  • 12pm - 6pm 12:00pm - 6:00pm

Location

Run Artist Run
6 Waterside Pl
Docklands 3008

Open in maps location for Run Artist Run

Price and bookings

This is a free event

Book online for Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归)

Contact details

  • email address: mingliewart@gmail.com
  • Visit website for Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归)
Instagram page for Halfway Seen Halfway Home (半窥半归)

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