natalie quan yau tso 左君悠
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I am making, thinking, working and living on stolen Cammeraygal and Gadigal lands of the Eora nation as an uninvited guest. I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. 

works
I Have Arrived at Yellow (2022)
Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生 (2022)
Wedding (2022)
dear, from (2022-ongoing)
Peeling & Cleansing (2020-1)
蜂蜜豆漿 Soy Milk and Honey (2021)
許願雲 Wishing Clouds (2021)
Pepper Spray (2020)
Tracing (2020)
我出來了 Out-Coming (2020)
the forgotten is not forgetting (2020)
Milk Tea? (2019)
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CV
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I am making, thinking, working and living on stolen Cammeraygal and Gadigal lands of the Eora nation as an uninvited guest. I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. 

works
I Have Arrived at Yellow (2022)
Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生 (2022)
Wedding (2022)
dear, from (2022-ongoing)
Peeling & Cleansing (2020-1)
蜂蜜豆漿 Soy Milk and Honey (2021)
許願雲 Wishing Clouds (2021)
Pepper Spray (2020)
Tracing (2020)
我出來了 Out-Coming (2020)
the forgotten is not forgetting (2020)
Milk Tea? (2019)
about
CV
contact

Tracing

2020

Hair, clay, dirt,facemask, threads and wires on disinfectant wipes, 18 x 19 x 5 cm (dimensions variable)



Exhibited as part of

online exhibition Shelter Domestics by Gallery Lane Cove here
Intimacy at Jerico Contemporary

Cleaning requires a relaxed but informed state of mind in deciding what to discard and what to maintain. It is the method of rethinking what is normally routine and automatic. To actively deliberate what should be discarded and maintained within myself is to challenge the natural dichotomy of cleanliness against dirt that perpetrate bodies, societies and environments. It is an act of care to collect remnants from my daily cleaning such as cut armpit hair, to be pieced with facemasks and tissues from performances. Recontextualising commonly perceived debris echoes the psychological process in disrupting internal biases to see now in conjunction with colonial histories and futures.


Cleaning requires a relaxed but informed state of mind in deciding what to discard and what to maintain. It is the method of rethinking what is normally routine and automatic. To actively deliberate what should be discarded and maintained within myself is to challenge the natural dichotomy of cleanliness against dirt that perpetrate bodies, societies and environments. It is an act of care to collect remnants from my daily cleaning such as cut armpit hair, to be pieced with facemasks and tissues from performances. Recontextualising commonly perceived debris echoes the psychological process in disrupting internal biases to see now in conjunction with colonial histories and futures.

Cleaning requires a relaxed but informed state of mind in deciding what to discard and what to maintain. It is the method of rethinking what is normally routine and automatic. To actively deliberate what should be discarded and maintained within myself is to challenge the natural dichotomy of cleanliness against dirt that perpetrate bodies, societies and environments. It is an act of care to collect remnants from my daily cleaning such as cut armpit hair, to be pieced with facemasks and tissues from performances. Recontextualising commonly perceived debris echoes the psychological process in disrupting internal biases to see now in conjunction with colonial histories and futures.


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