KIN
Curated by Rainer Ciar, Hayley Coghlan, Fei Gao and Hareen Johl
Pari Gallery | 2023
We depend on all kinds of kinships and lineages, intertwining and expanding far beyond the enclosure of the nuclear family. Lineages can grow tumultuous as bonds and attachments shift, disconnect and reconnect alongside land and time. Elders pass away and become ancestors to be remembered. The bonds of ritual and obligation can linger, and can tie us to our kin even when they fade from our lives. In KIN, we explore all these quiet things said out loud — of buried histories, family dinners, of growing older and passing. In turning these hidden memories outwards, we can see the echoes of parents, ancestors, and loved ones imprinted onto us. We can untether from heteronormative expectations, reflect on the past, and move forward with warmth and care.
Curated by Rainer Ciar, Hayley Coghlan, Fei Gao and Hareen Johl
Pari Gallery | 2023
With Celine Cheung, Iki Lofti, Meita Melita, Mei Lin Meyers, Karlina Mitchell, Kim Pham, Jeremy Plint, Spacefloss Collective and Agus Wijaya
We depend on all kinds of kinships and lineages, intertwining and expanding far beyond the enclosure of the nuclear family. Lineages can grow tumultuous as bonds and attachments shift, disconnect and reconnect alongside land and time. Elders pass away and become ancestors to be remembered. The bonds of ritual and obligation can linger, and can tie us to our kin even when they fade from our lives. In KIN, we explore all these quiet things said out loud — of buried histories, family dinners, of growing older and passing. In turning these hidden memories outwards, we can see the echoes of parents, ancestors, and loved ones imprinted onto us. We can untether from heteronormative expectations, reflect on the past, and move forward with warmth and care.
The Happiest I've Ever Been
Seeking to uncover how our relationship to familial ritual changes as we age, we reconstruct and repeat small acts that embody our connection to our parents to examine how our relationship to these actions shift as we grow further away from their origins. What sits in the weight of absence and what is said in silence? “Did you bring a jacket?”, “Have you eaten???”. The happiest I’ve ever been unpacks how we attempt to connect the past to present by repeating old rituals, suspended in time.
Seeking to uncover how our relationship to familial ritual changes as we age, we reconstruct and repeat small acts that embody our connection to our parents to examine how our relationship to these actions shift as we grow further away from their origins. What sits in the weight of absence and what is said in silence? “Did you bring a jacket?”, “Have you eaten???”. The happiest I’ve ever been unpacks how we attempt to connect the past to present by repeating old rituals, suspended in time.
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Image by Document Photography