Hidden Narratives

Curated by Esther Fan, Sia Fang, and Steffie Chau

We make sense of who we are and the worlds we live in through the stories we tell.

Stories are our transferences and inheritances, connecting us through time and place.They echo the intimate and significant of our experiences, bridging the personal and shared. They are practice and process, reveal the content and context of the ways we are human.

“History” is narrow, crucial narratives are hidden. Storytelling allows us to uncover the depth and diversity of the human condition. In anthropology, stories find us as we find them. Art allows us to reconfigure the archive, visualising our histories as textured tapestries.

The artists unravel narratives of fantasy, male intimacy, and complex desire. They make with nuances of heritage and kinship through allegorical, matrilineal material. They communicate through everyday imaginations, perceptions, and compositions. They play with the connection and tension between lived stories, religion, mythology, eroticism, and ecology. They express and collage through survival, loss, migration, womanhood, and cultural reconciliation.

Our exhibition teams art and anthropology to demonstrate how through ethnographies of expression, we can convey the concealed and speak to the indescribable.