Artspace

The Other's Other

Newell Harry, Raafat Ishak, Dinh Q Lê, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, Jun Yang

Curated By Mark Feary

Exhibition Dates
9 May - 17 June 2012

Overview

The Other’s Other attempts to elaborate upon the fluidity of territorial borders and cultural identification through a project which explores some of the complexities of historical and contemporary migration. The exhibition assembles new and recent works by a selection of leading Australian and international artists whose works reflect upon their personal narratives of identifying with multiple concepts of home and cultural belonging.

Central to the project are questions of how the memory or actuality of cultural origin and involvement is configured and reconfigured from the perspective of living in estrangement from it. Through this tension, what begins to emerge is a sense of longing, of relief and of distance and as one begins to hold up the mirror to both cultures, questioning belonging and acceptance. What does it mean to analyse a culture and one’s own identity from outside of it, and what does this reveal of where one is?

Raafat Ishak, 'Nomination for the Presidency of the New Egypt', installation view, Artspace Sydney, 2012
Newell Harry, 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (after Charles Mingus)', installation detail, Artspace, Sydney, 2012
Jun Yang, 'Paris Syndrome', 2008, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2012
Foreground: Sangeeta Sandrasegar, 'The scaffold called the Motherland spews infinite grace', 2012, installation view, Artspace Sydney. Background: Dinh Q Lê, From 'Father to Son: A Rite of Passage', 2007, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2012
Dinh Q Lê, 'From Father to Son: A Rite of Passage', 2007, installation view, Artspace, Sydney, 2012
Newell Harry, 'The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (after Charles Mingus)', installation detail, Artspace, Sydney, 2012