Announcing Representation of Kien Situ
8 Jul 2022
Yavuz Gallery is delighted to announce the representation of Kien Situ 司徒建.
Umbra marks Situ’s first solo presentation with the Gallery, the exhibition is viewable until 13 August 2022 at Yavuz Sydney.
Situ works across sculpture and installation to explore the ideas of memory, cultural amnesia and identity in relation to constructed objects and built environments. The incorporation of ink is foundational to Situ’s practice as part of his broader investigation into the interrelationships between geography and identity.
The material associations of region-specific ink and colour provide deeply embedded connotations to time and place. From the use of modern-day industrial materials such as concrete and plaster, the artist unearths primordial shapes that possess an ancient quality that is seen in Umbra.
Kien Situ 司徒建 (b. 1990, Australia) is an artist working across sculpture and installation to explore the ideas of memory cultural amnesia and identity in relation to constructed objects and built environments. Drawing upon both his diasporic Chinese-Vietnamese upbringing and his Eurocentric architectural education Situ creates objects which reinterpret his formative hybrid aesthetics. The incorporation of ink is foundational to Situ’s practice as part of his broader investigation into the interrelationships between geography and identity. The material associations of region-specific ink and colour provide deeply embedded connotations to time and place.
Images: portrait of Kien Situ by Daphne Nguyen; Umbra 2, 2022, Chinese Mò ink, gypsum plaster, 48 x 48 x 8 cm each