What: Emma Rani Hodges’ exhibition, ‘I would kiss you on the cheek if you listened to me. I’m tired of pleading with you’ is a body of work that focuses on plural identities and feelings of cultural rootlessness.
Having grown up between cultures, Hodges lives in the skin of a Thai-Chinese migrant and grew up on unceded Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri land. Land and country are important here; coming from a diasporic identity there is a strong desire to find spaces that sit on the margins of white development.
Hodges’ work constructs fictional spaces combining found natural objects such as banksia cones and cicada shells, manufactured objects such as fabric sent by their grandmother in Thailand (who was once a dress maker), poetic prose, and traditional paintings.
When: 17th July – 28th August 2021
Where: Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, 184 Bourke Street, Goulburn, NSW, 2580
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