One in a series of 20 life-sized collaborative photographic portraits originally commissioned for the 19th Biennale of Sydney 'You Imagine What You Desire', held 21 Mar 2014 - 9 Jun 2014.
Jinghua Qian "is a Shanghai-born, Melbourne-based cultural commentator, media maker and poet-provocateur whose work focuses on marginalisation and resistance. Ey interrogate the power of unbelonging - as an immigrant in a settler-colonial state, as a gender-fluid body seen through binary vision."--From artist's notes on subjects.
This portrait comes from a series created collaboratively in open workshops over many months. Participants collaged each image to reflect the subject’s identity, concerns, dreams or life story. Born in Shanghai, China and based in Melbourne, Australia, Jinghua Qian’s portrait responds to their identity as a writer and poet. In Jinghua’s words, their work explores “the power of ‘unbelonging’, as an immigrant in a settler-colonial society and a shapeshifter in a binary-gendered world”.-- from gallery text in Being Human at Wellcome Collection.
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