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Chan Contemporary Art Space
Immemorial
Reaching Back Beyond Memory
"Pilgrimage to My Mother's Grave" series, 2007–present, 40 x 40 cm. Courtesy the artist.
Are we shaped by our cultural and ancestral histories? Do these past experiences, which are beyond our memory, influence who we are today? What is the relationship between personal and collective memory?
“Immemorial: Reaching Back Beyond Memory” set out to explore these questions in the context of exchange, inviting a group of Indonesian, Australian and Filipino artists to investigate their ancestral histories from…