OPENING NIGHT // A Tear in the Fabric

Friday 19 September, 6-8PM

Welcome to Country
Auslan interpreted opening speeches (VRI)
Catering by BRAGS
Beverages by sponsors Grass Parrot Vineyard, Renzaglia Wines, Cosmo Brewing
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Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) in partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, presents A Tear in the Fabric.

The idea of distortion represents a radical shift in aesthetic treatment and conceptual methodology which picks apart established rules which serve to dictate the status quo. For centuries, artists have twisted and transgressed formal boundaries to enact and depict cultural shifts.

A Tear in the Fabric presents new and existing works from nine Asian and Asian Australian artists who embrace distortion as a mode of disruption. It revolves around notions of aesthetic, material and conceptual interventions integrated into established forms of creative practice. Picking at the seams to make space for new narratives and artistic approaches, we see exploratory excursions into concepts of place, materiality, memory, identity and perception, manifesting in a diverse range of mediums.

Artists: Zico Albaiquni, Tiyan Baker, Allison Chhorn, Visaya Hoffie, Jenna Mayilema Lee, Khaled Sabsabi, Leyla Stevens, Ali Tahayori, Hirofumi Uchino.

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Image: Allison Chhorn, Memory House, 2012–13, 35mm photograph. Courtesy the artist.