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Global Markings & Zhongjian Midway – 2009

Sabbia Gallery, Surry Hills, Sydney
August, 2008

Global Markings & Zhongjian Midway – 2009

A series of work titled Global Markings was created for the touring exhibition ZHONGJIAN: MIDWAY. This project focused on the dynamic inter-change between an increasingly commodified global culture and the changing identity of Chinese women. Due to my long-term interest in bodies as a site for the expression of social and cultural change, I decided to use objects associated with body modification such as women’s accessories from traditional and contemporary China. These objects express the co-existence of past and present body modification practices that are relevant within the context of a country experiencing rapid modernisation and exposure to global values and branding, within a very short time. These ceramic objects refer to the compression of time in relation to Chinese female identity.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.
We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging.

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