Sciography and Silence Opening Reception

Bankstown Arts Centre is a cultural facility, where artists and community groups collaborate to explore ideas and learn, create and experience contemporary community-based arts.

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Discover Kien Situ's site-specific solo exhibition at Bankstown Arts Centre, including new work with timber.

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Sciography and Silence Events and Workshops

Join us for two new exhibitions Sciography and Silence, focusing on ink in contemporary art practice.
Sciography and Silence are on view from 8 February - 22 March 2025

<h2>Sciography by Kien Situ</h2>Sciography is a site-specific solo exhibi­tion at Bankstown Arts Centre, tracing the intersections of matter, time, and form as active forces in space. Through the fusion of Chinese ink, incense ash, and concrete, Situ engages materiality as a state of flux - between transforma­tion and permanence, emergence and erosion, solidity and ruin. Kien Situ (b. 1990, Australia) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans architecture, sculpture and sound and is anchored by themes of formation and change in a global diasporic context. With a thematic focus on matter, ruin, dimensions, numerology and time in relation to new migrant identities; it functions to challenge, deconstruct and re-imagine structural norms and reconfigure environments. The use of Chinese Mò ink is foundational to Situ’s practice and it is often meshed with architectural materials. The contradistinction of historical, mystical and personal materials with technical, industrial materials forms his interrogation of interrelationships between matter and identity. In a similar motion to his lived experience; ink and matter is displaced, de-contextualised and given new expressions in present society.