BOTH WAYS BEYOND THE SKY
Image: Emma Rani Hodges, She Goes, 2019
Image: Jacquie Meng, Burning Paper Cars for My Grandparents in Heaven, 2022, oil on canvas 45 x 70 cm
EMMA RANI HODGES
JACQUELINE MENG
21 April - 01 May 2022 @ CCAS MANUKA
Both Ways Beyond the Sky explores the nuances of what it means to be of Asian descent and to have grown up in Australia. The exhibition explores cross-cultural identity in relation to religious trends, globalisation and consumer culture. Within this fast-moving paradigm, cultural identity has come to exist in a state of flux. This argument is backed by cultural theorist Trinh T Minh Ha who contends that within Western Society, the migrant woman’s experience is one of the multiplicities and fragmented identity. The inability to fit fully into a western identity as well as the distance from reclaiming a fully eastern identity renders the exhibition as a space where both artists attempt to create and project their own art as identity; a somewhat utopia in the midst of living between cultures.