MNG Main Space

1.04.2024 - 2.09.2024

This is what I hear

by Juli Song

Reception 2.09 @ 7PM

This is what I hear is an installation piece that investigates the sharing of lived experience as political knowledge that is owned and expressed by people who experience it (1). Throughout the exhibition are fabric strips that are racist comments made to the artist in her lifetime. The show aims to give these internalized experiences a physical form, the fabric strips become evidence, no longer can they be refuted and dismissed. The doll, in place of the artist, challenges these statements, returning the gaze of the fabric strips and facing away from the dismissive ones with an unsettling defiant stare.

1. Potts, K., & Brown, L. (2005). Becoming an Anti-Oppressive Researcher. In L. Brown & S. Strega (Eds.), Research as Resistance: Critical, Indigenous and Anti-oppressive Approaches (pp. 255–286). Canadian Scholars’ Press.`