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Kien Situ

(Metal) | Artist Talk with Kien Situ

Next on 25 Sep 2025 from 12:30pm to 1:00pm

(Metal) | Artist Talk with Kien Situ

Kien Situ

Overview

Join artist Kien Situ on a tour through his exhibition, '(Metal)'.

In '(Metal)', Situ transforms CIW Gallery into a striking environment of rupture and reincarnation. The installation brings together Chinese ink, cement, titanium, and incense ash collected from Taoist temple censers in New South Wales, alongside fragments of the artist's earlier works. These materials come together in a suspended, charged space—where opposing forces collide and new forms emerge.

Kien Situ (b.1990) is an architectonic artist whose practice spans sculpture and space. Informed by his diasporic heritage at the juncture of contemporary global cultural theory with ancient Sinospheric philosophy, he explores matter, ruin, distance, numerology, and time in relation to cultural dislocation.

Dates

25 Sep 2025
September 2025
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CIW GalleryAustralian Centre on China in the World, Fellows Lane, Building 188, The Australian National University, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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