Ming Liew
Eternal Seek
15 May - 26 May 2024
G4
Opening Night
Friday 17 May | 6 - 8pm
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"Eternal Seek" is an essayistic exploration of the Chinese immigrant experience in contemporary Australia. Set against the backdrop of the Victorian goldfields, the film delves into the remnants of Chinese goldmines to uncover how historical racial oppression shapes the identity of today’s Chinese-Australians. By engaging historical fragments through a self-reflexive lens, "Eternal Seek" creates a dynamic interplay between the tangible and intangible, the past and present, fact and fiction, personal and social.
Artist Bio
Ming Liew is a lens-based artist and a PhD student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Ming's practice draws upon his Chinese-Australian bicultural identity, combining ethnography and visual storytelling to examine the immigrant experience in contemporary Australia. Accentuating the paradoxes between lived and prescribed realities, Ming uses his artworks to advocate for understanding that transcends social, cultural and political barriers.
Ming holds a Master of Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne since 2022, including at Blindside ARI, Testing Grounds, Kings Artist-Run, Felt Space, Footscray Community Arts, Incinerator Gallery, Bunjil Place, Run Artist-Run and Collective Polyphony Festival. He has been recognised with various awards such as the First Prize of fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award, Footscray Art Prize (finalist), Incinerator Art Award (finalist), NAVA Ignition Prize, and the RMIT Dean’s Awards for Academic Excellence. Ming was a resident at the RMIT + ACMI X graduate residency program at the Australian Center for the Moving Image. Currently, Ming is a creative resident at the Center for Contemporary Photography.
Contact
Phone : (03) 9482 3550
mail@redgallery.com.au
Address
157 St Georges Rd
Fitzroy North, Victoria, 3068
Map
How to get here
Tram: route 11
Stop 21 just north of Edinburgh Gardens
Melway ref: 30B12
Parking in nearby streets
Bus: 504 (Reid Street)
