For Fireworks at China Heights Gallery, Sydney. Curated by Con Gerakaris.

mother and father reminisce about Hong Kong and we don’t talk about patrick are a pair of works that utilise strategies of refusal and trickery as a method of disruption in the white imagination. 

mother and father reminisce about Hong Kong is a video work where I document myself cleaning old photo slides I found in my father’s collection. The audio features my mother and father having a conversation. Its descriptive title situates the work in the long line of stories of political strife that artists of colour and diaspora can find themselves pigeonholed to tell. Installed behind a thick acrylic sheet, a clear image is obfuscated. Only those who can speak Cantonese will know the audio’s content. 

we don’t talk about patrick is a framed slide that was cleaned during the making of ‘mother and father reminisce about Hong Kong’. 

To view mother and father reminisce about Hong Kong with a translated transcript, please email ng.johanna@gmail.com and tell me about a family feud.