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Holding Patterns: Kien Situ at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art - register to visit

By 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

Date and time

Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM AEDT

Location

4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

181-187 Hay St Haymarket, NSW 2000 Australia

About this event

Sydney

Holding Patterns: Kien Situ

Exhibition Period: 9 July – 2 August 2020

4A HAYMARKET

181-187 Hay St, Haymarket, NSW 2000

In a period of uncertainty and stasis, artists have demonstrated the capacity of human creativity through artistic innovation, lateral thought, and inspired action. In our current period of changes and shifts, 4A is pleased to invite you to engage with Holding Patterns, a series of four solo exhibitions on view from July to October. Curated by Con Gerakaris and Reina Takeuchi, these exhibitions highlight and support the works of Sydney-based artists Kien Situ, Crossing Threads®, Shireen Taweel and Sofiyah Ruqayah, utilising our ground-floor gallery space and windows out onto Haymarket’s streets.

In line with COVID-19 regulations, visitors are requested to pre-book their preferred gallery viewing times, allocated to 30 minute intervals. Click here to read current visitor guidelines for 4A.

Holding Patterns: Kien Situ is exhibited at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art from 9 July to 2 August 2020.

About Kien Situ

Kien Situ (b. 1990, Sydney) is a sculpture and installation artist meditating on memory, cultural amnesia and identity in relation to the aesthetics of constructed objects and environments. Drawing upon familiar spatial, formal, textural, tectonic and material experience of his East Asian upbringing, Kien utilises and dissects his Eurocentric architectural education to create objects which reinterpret formative aesthetic and sensory experiences obfuscated by a diasporic childhood. His works are a physical melding of this experience, casting industrial gypsum cement with the regional, “artistic” material of Chinese Mò ink, a material central to the artist’s practice as part of the investigation into the symbiotic relationship between geography, place and identity.

Images by Kai Wasikowski for Holding Patterns: Kien Situ, courtesy the artist.

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4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art

181-187 Hay Street, Haymarket

Warrane/Sydney

NSW 2000

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