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Badra Aji, Maria and the Lost Love, Pencil on Stonehenge paper, 39 x 33cm, 2025
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Ghosts are always with me
Exhibition period February 12 - March 3
Ghosts are always with me brings together six queer Asian-Australian artists exploring themes of haunting mediated through the perspective of their queerness. Artworks reflect on lingering memories and the way queerness is felt over time, shaped by the social and cultural realities of being Asian in Australia. Some of these experience being comforting, while others more scary. The materials are also supernatural, adopting treatments soft light, photographic sheen, or translucency; be it through glass, marble, graphite, or photography.
Featured artist include Val Wens, Samuel Chan, Badra Aji, Moira Mai, Bonnie Huang, and Meng-Yu Yan
Val Wens is represented by Mais Wright Gallery
The exhibition is part of the Mardi Gras+ program
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Each artist produces work that evoke themes of Queer Spectrality and the complexities of being Asian in Australia. Indonesian Australian artist Val Wens uses the photographic staging to subvert art historical images of desire, while Chinese Australian artist Meng-Yu Yan draws from "spirit photography" to convey a sense of the supernatural. Other artist use the symbolic associations of graphite and marble to examine themes of haunting. For example, Samuel Chan examines the intersections and tensions between his Singaporean Chinese Australian, queer, and former Christian identities and Badra Aji’s practice rooted in personal and collective memory, blurring the boundaries between intimate and political, highlighting marginalised perspectives. These slippages are further explored by Moira Mai, who responds to the persistent invisibility of lesbian visual culture in China by using the transparency of glass, and Bonnie Huang, whose soap sculptures reexamine the symbolic associations of gendered clothing.
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Val Wens, Penganten Lanang (The Groom), photography, 115 x 115 cm (framed), 2016.Val Wens is represented by Mais Wright Gallery
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Upcoming in Melbourne:
REDBASE will be showing at Melbourne Art Fair between February 19 - 22 with a showcase by famous Chinese Australian artist Shen Shaomin. The booth will feature two installations taken from his recent museum exhibitions in China.
During this time, REDBASE also have a pop up exhibition MAGNIFYcent at 250 High Street Windsor, Victoria. The inaugural group show features Gao Rong, Shen Shaomin, Ari Bayuaji, Cheolyu Kim, Chen Gelin.
Please reply to this email if you require tickets to Melbourne Art Fair between the 19-22.
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About REDBASE
REDBASE Art is based in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. We are cross-cultural sites that envision the changing ideas about contemporary art in the Asia-Pacific. With a focus on Chinese, Indonesian, and Asian-Australian artists, REDBASE distinguishes itself by providing exposure to the next collective zeitgeist in a reimagined gallery context.
(+61) 2 9699 1409
(+61) 410 199 958
in...@redbaseart.com
2/ 19 Wellington St. Chippendale Sydney, NSW 2008, Australia
250 High Street, Windsor, VIC 3181, Australia
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