Exhibition runs Saturday 8 February-Saturday 22 March
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.