Photos: Zan Wimberley

Traversed Differences
Lisa Myeong-Joo, Tanaporn Norsrida, Jana Ortanez, Natalie Tso

Curated by Sineenart Meena
Firstdraft Curators Program

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Traversed Differences explores the way we can express and represent identity, spirituality, otherness. The project presents the voices of four emerging women artists, selected for how they explore their identity and the representation of self through their shared perspective as artists of mixed Asian heritage living in Australia.

Through performance, portraiture and representation, they focus on the body as a contested site to consider alternative ways of thinking about self-representation, personal history and cultural hybridity. In each artist’s work – identity, experience or memory leave a trace on the body. This trace is seen on the skin and face, in gesture and movement; understood through language and felt deep in the bones. The physical experience draws us together as humans irrespective of cultural differences.

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