Relations: Diaspora and Painting

Description

This publication is basedon the major exhibition All Our Relations, which explored the complex and multiple meanings of diaspora, its condition and experience as expressed through painting. As part of a discursive approach, All Our Relations brought together works by artists thatelicit meanings of the diasporic condition from a diversity of perspectives, methodologies and aesthetic languages. The medium of painting, with its deep and complex history becomes a particularly provocative lens through which to explore the complications as well as the celebration and richness of diasporic experiences. With a desire for an intergenerational dialogue the exhibition also presented proposals that push the boundaries of what painting is and can be.Featuring full-colour reproductions and installation views, each work is accompanied by a texts by a wide range of writers that explore each artist's practice.

Cheryl Sim is managing director and curator at Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art. Her recent publications include DHC/ART LIBRE and Growing Freedom: The instructions of Yoko Ono and the art of John and Yoko. She also is the author of the book Wearing the Cheongsam: Dress and Culture in a Chinese Diaspora.