Members and Volunteers Preview – Hyphenated

Join us for a preview tour of our new exhibition, Hyphenated.

Hyphenated thoroughly interrogates the hybrid qualities of hyphenated identities from multiple perspectives – focusing particularly on artists who incorporate text and language into their work. 

The hyphen, being a function of language, alludes to the difficulties hyphenated communities experience (both in spoken languages and in the cultural languages of signs and symbolism). First generation migrants often struggle to learn and speak new languages while subsequent generations struggle to keep speaking their ancestral tongue and lose touch with the cultural traditions from which they came.

Image: William Yang, William in Scholar’s Costume (1984) 1984/2009, archival ink jet print, image size 80 x 52cm