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.
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