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In this solo exhibition, emerging talent June Chen reveals an artistic journey of personal transformation, emancipation, and her ultmate becoming.
Featuring drawing, painting and multi-faceted mixed media works, Chen’s art reckons with notions of identity from the perspective of a young Chinese Australian woman. Powerful charcoal drawings that examine the father-daughter relationship reflect on how cultural norms and familial authority impact behaviour and self-perception. In other works, Chen draws upon the complex cultural significance of hair through her representation of long, twisted or plaited hair, evoking both psychological entanglement and feminine power. Throughout this visceral exhibition Chen asserts individual agency against a backdrop of cultural containment, as the body becomes a vehicle for both tension and release.
